If Michel Barnier is on reprieve with the risk of a motion of censure, the Élysée is also under pressure. And new voices were added on Wednesday to strongly criticize the president. The general rapporteur of the budget to the National Assembly, the centrist Charles de Courson, and the LR mayor of Meaux Jean-François Copé have both pleaded for a resignation of Emmanuel Macron.
According to them, a departure of the current head of state would constitute a solution to emerge from the crisis caused by the dissolution of the National Assembly.
A dissolution “that resembles nothing”
“The problem is the political chaos unleashed by the President of the Republic,” said Charles de Courson, deputy of the Liot group (Libertés, Indépendants, Overseas and Territories). Whoever the minister is appointed “he will not have a majority. The only solution would be a resignation of the president,” he declared.
On BFMTV, Jean-François Copé, former boss of the political family from which Prime Minister Michel Barnier comes, agreed. “We are all victims of this dissolution which is unlike anything and for which we pay the price every day,” he explained, also believing that the only solution “to resolve the problem (is) a new presidential election “. “It is only Emmanuel Macron who has not realized – but it will be necessary that at one time or another, his friends or those who like him tell him – that he does not cannot last until 2027,” he stressed.
The French charge Macron
According to an Elabe poll for BFMTV, a large majority of French people (63%) believe that the President of the Republic should resign if the government was censored, with just over half of them (53%) considering him responsible for the current political situation.
The government could activate article 49.3 of the Constitution on Monday, to have the Social Security financing bill for 2025 adopted without a vote in the Assembly, exposing itself to censorship by deputies, which worries the markets and makes fearing a “storm” for the Prime Minister.
The decision of the President of the Republic to dissolve the Assembly led in July to the creation of a hemicycle divided into three blocks, from which no solid majority seems to be able to emerge.
