The left denounced this Tuesday morning a “denial of democracy”After Emmanuel Macron’s rejection of a government from the New Popular Front. Forty-two days after having accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Gabriel Attalthe head of state is still looking a new government and relaunch a “new cycle of consultations”without La France Insoumise and the National Rally, but with the support of “personalities” supposed to help him get out of the impasse. The members of the NFP refuse to participate.
Guest of France Inter this tuesday, Lucie Castetscandidate of the left union, considered that “the decision” of the head of state to dismiss the NFP “does not correspond at all to the logic of institutions and the logic of democracy”. She denounced a ““denial of democracy” “extremely worrying”“. Representatives of the left-wing parties call on the French to protest and La France Insoumise has already announced a mobilization on September 7 against the “coup de force” by Emmanuel Macron.
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The left calls on the French to mobilize
Lucie Castets called the French people this Tuesday morning “to mobilize”The senior official notably mentioned “mobilizations in community life, in collectives”. She promised to continue herself. “to mobilize to embody the union of the left.”
Similarly, Marine Tondelier, national secretary of the Ecologists, called for a demonstration: “This election is being stolen from us and we are swimming in a full-blown illiberal drift”she reacted on franceinfo.
On France Blue Norththe national secretary of the French Communist Party Fabien Roussel announced that “left forces” were going meet this Tuesday afternoon and that they were going “call for rallies.” “We will fight”he repeated, “We are going to call on the French to mobilize wherever they are, in city centers, in front of prefectures, in the coming days.”
Even before this meeting to determine future actions, LFI announced in a press release “a big demonstration against the coup” by Emmanuel Macron September 7thThe political party thus joins Student unions callthe Student Union and the High School Union.Faced with the exceptional gravity of the situation, we have called for a firm response from French society.”we can read in the press release.We hope that the political, trade union and associative forces attached to the defense of democracy will join this appeal.” The CGT has also called for large-scale demonstrations at the start of the school year.
Left-wing parties refuse to participate in new consultations
This Tuesday, all the parties constituting the NFP announced that they refused to participate in the new consultations organized by Emmanuel Macron.
The first secretary of the Socialist Party Olivier Faure refuses to be “accomplice in a parody of democracy”, he said on France 2. Emmanuel Macron invited the PS, the Ecologists and the communists to “cooperate with other political forces” But Olivier Faure assured that there was no question of being “the auxiliaries of a dying macronie“, and that they would censor “any extension of Macronism”.
For Marine Tondelier too, the position of the New Popular Front is clear: “We’re not going to see him again” at the Elysée. “We are not going to continue this circus, this sham consultation”she said, “We will not return to the Elysée Palace until we can work concretely towards a government of cohabitation.”
The Liot group received this Tuesday morning at the Élysée
The Liot group will be received this Tuesday morning at the Élysée at 11:30 to participate in the new consultations, the political service of franceinfo learned from parliamentary sources. The Liot group, Libertés, Indépendants, Outre-mer et Territoires, is made up of 22 deputies and is chaired by Bertrand Pancher.
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