ANALYSE – By raising the possibility that no Insoumis would sit in a government led by Lucie Castets, the leader of the radical left put Emmanuel Macron under pressure, but not only that.
What a Trafalgar coup. A simple question thrown by Jean-Luc Mélenchon on the microphone of TF1’s “1pm” on Saturday has stirred up the entire political class ever since. « The government of Mme Lucie Castets, if it did not include any Insoumis ministers, would you commit to not voting for censure? ? »he simply asked the right and the center. The presence of personalities from the Mélenchonist party has effectively been used as a pretext for the overthrow of a New Popular Front government since the beginning of July. Emmanuel Macron himself asked Lucie Castets, during their meeting at the Élysée on Friday, if she intended to appoint ministers from LFI to her government. Proof of the importance that this element held for the president in the choice of the future prime minister, before he ended up definitively ruling out, on Monday evening, any form of NFP government.
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