In search of a name
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No more than the visit of the LR leaders on Wednesday, that of the representatives of local elected officials on Thursday did not allow a name to be given for Matignon. The President, who is going to Belgrade for two days, suggests that he will decide by Sunday.
How delighted they all seemed as they left the Elysée on 23 August! Playing a role, the representatives of the New Popular Front, who were escorting Lucie Castets, their candidate for Matignon, displayed their confidence, delighted to have had a frank exchange with a President “lucid” on the “wish for a change in political direction” expressed during the legislative elections. The right, then received, to be seduced, on hearing the head of state slip a few names of prime ministerial candidates from their ranks. Finally, after a “Olympic Truce” and a summer of “decantation”Emmanuel Macron gave the impression of seriously looking for a successor to Gabriel Attal, who resigned on July 16.
Las… After the Elysée press release on Monday dismissing the Lucie Castets option and announcing a second round of consultations for this week, it’s not the same song anymore. Exasperated by this “coup de force”communists, environmentalists and socialists declined. The RN was not invited. And the other leaders of parliamentary groups and parties, who returned
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