The French socialists are willing to make “compromises and reciprocal concessions” with the center-right forces to form a government that should have a left-wing prime minister “for a limited duration” to get out of the current political crisis.
This is the position presented this Friday by the first secretary of the Socialist Party (PS), Olivier Faure, in an interview with the France Info station a few hours before being received by the French president, .
“We are obliged to talk to Macron because he is the one who appoints the prime minister” but that is only to establish with other forces “a temporary contract” discussing “all issues,” Faure explained.
“The urgency is to find solutions to unblock the political crisis, the democratic crisis,” stressed the leader of the socialists, who assumes that this movement will be carried out without the participation of the party that constitutes the first force of the left-wing coalition, La Francia. Insumisa (LFI) by Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
The reason is that LFI “for now has excluded itself because it is betting on the resignation of the President of the Republic”, since the members of that formation “have said that the solution is for the head of State to leave. But the head of State “It’s not going to go away.”
Macron intervened last night on television to say that he has no intention of resigning, that he will exhaust his mandate that ends in 2027 and to criticize the “cynicism” of those who with a motion of censure voted by the entire left and the extreme right .
The president also announced that “in the coming days” he will appoint a prime minister who will be in charge of forming a Government that represents all the political forces willing to participate and not censor him, excluding LFI and the extreme right from the outset.
Faure, for his part, has pointed out that he does not want an ultra-quick appointment but rather “a negotiation”, and recalled that in other European countries negotiations can last “one month, two months, three months”.
He has insisted that, after what happened with Barnier, and taking into account the results of the legislative elections at the beginning of the summer, in which the left-wing coalition was the one that obtained the largest number of deputies, but without obtaining a majority to govern alone, “now there must be a left-wing prime minister, and not a right-wing prime minister.
For the socialist leader, it would be that the forces that agreed on this Government that would have a temporary mandate, and in which he believes that the communists and the environmentalists could participate, who have a different position from LFI, would commit to not voting a motion of censure at the time set.
In exchange for that, the “left-wing” prime minister would undertake not to use the constitutional device of article 49.3, which allows the parliamentary vote to be avoided to adopt certain texts.
That is to say, that all the texts that the new Executive would put forward would have to be the subject of negotiation and agreement to obtain a majority, and that therefore only the proposals for which there was agreement by a sufficient majority would go forward.
Faure is received at noon by Macron along with the heads of the socialist parliamentary groups in the National Assembly, Boris Vallaud, and in the Senate, Patrick Kanner.
Before that, the French president had an appointment in the morning with some of the main officials of the parties of the Macronist bloc. In the afternoon, the turn will be for leaders of Los Republicanos (LR), Barnier’s party.
So far Macron has not opened consultations to appoint a new Executive to either LFI or Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN).
