24 hours and counting. That was, at least, the promise made by Emmanuel Macron to make his big announcement. France seeks prime minister and the President of the Republic himself promised that it would be a matter of days. On Tuesday he limited the deadlines to 48 hours in a meeting with different political forces. The deadline is coming to an end with uncertainty hovering over Matignon. Will there be left turn? Will you pull the macronist circle? Will it open a third way?
Consummated fall of Michel Barnier with a, something like oil and water in ideological terms, Macron got in a hurry. Unlike what happened after the victory of the New Popular Front in the July legislative elections, now it does not want to let weeks pass without a head of Government in real office, because the Barnier administration remains in office until there is no succession. The announcement is expected upon return from a trip to Poland, for end of the day.
Last Thursday, the 24th after the motion, he informed the nation of his intention to have new prime minister and government in “several days”. Opening your hand, but not excessively. A Government “of general interest” that “represents all the political forces of a governmental arc.” This, in plain language, means that neither insubordinates nor the extreme right of Le Pen will be represented.
With the radical right and left ruled out, the parliamentary arc is greatly reduced. Socialists, communists, centrists, moderate conservatives or ecologists he passed through the Elysée in the last hours… Everything, for the sake of ensuring an Executive with enough support to not fall before possible new motions of censurea danger that Macron himself warned about in his speech.
For now, he has given clues as to where he will not go. leaving out La Francia Insumisa who heads the New Popular Front. The former presidential candidate of this formation, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, has responded with a complaint to his colleagues in the left-wing bloc for agreeing to “negotiate with the right.” “A return to the past,” he added.
In response, the leader of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure His absence has disfigured it by “weakening” the voice of a left that has an “advantage” in the National Assembly. For this reason, the socialist has made efforts to “claim that the prime minister is leftist“. Claim shared by environmentalists and communists. Veto included by centrist François Bayrouone of the first to be nominated for the position.
“What we ask for and what the French want is a break with the policy carried out until now,” so the chosen one “cannot be François Bayrou”Faure added to BFMTV.
Other names are heard, already ‘old’ known in the pools of recent days, such as the current Minister of Defense, the conservative Sébastien Lecornuthe Minister of Territories and Decentralization, also curator Catherine Vautrin or, with much less force, the former socialist prime minister Bernard Cazeneuve, although this would have been ruled out by Macron himself according to an internal source.
The extreme right, “proudly” isolated
Outside of presidential meetings, the extreme right licks its lips despite what they see as “contempt” from Macron. The leader of the National Rally, Marine Le Pen, has come to brag in the last few hours about not having been invited to the negotiations, since she was not they want to “participate” in any coalition with parties that do not seek to “fix the problems of the French”, but rather to talk about “how to keep their jobs”.
Le Pen continues to grow in popular support in a context of chaos and growing polarization. A recent survey of whether there are presidential elections now, with a very large advantage against possible candidates from the Macronist bloc such as Gabriel Attal or Édouard Philippe.
