An extremely bitter taste. Just a few hours after Emmanuel Macron appointed Michel Barnier as Prime Minister, disappointment has gradually given way to anger among left-wing supporters. “I am absolutely unhappy with this choice,” one left-wing voter told BFMTV.
“I am disappointed because we have been waiting for weeks to have a left-wing Prime Minister and finally, after so much waiting, we have a right-wing Prime Minister,” adds a second.
And a third disgruntled person added: “I’m flabbergasted, I don’t understand. I don’t know what I’m going to say to all the friends I tried to get to vote.”
Some supporters go even further and denounce a “denial of democracy”. “It’s as if we had voted for nothing”, he laments.
“Republican affront”
This anger is also present among left-wing political leaders. On the BFMTV set, Marine Tondelier, national secretary of the Ecologists, emphasizes that “we have gone from the republican front to the republican affront.”
“I thought that in this country, there was not much left that was standing, but that this value, that of the republican front, was solid,” she adds.
Fabien Roussel, national secretary of the French Communist Party, also violently attacked Michel Barnier’s profile. “When you have a 50-year political career, you know what he has done. He has never done anything social, we know which side of the barricade we are on and we will continue to fight,” he denounced.
For his part, Jean-Luc Mélenchon called for “the most powerful mobilization possible” this Saturday, September 7 “for respect for democracy.”
Last week, La France Insoumise and several student union organizations called, in a press release, for “a large demonstration against the coup” by Emmanuel Macron.
- BFMTV.com
