While Emmanuel Macron is receiving Bernard Cazeneuve as part of his consultations to appoint a Prime Minister this Monday, September 2, Olivier Faure states on RMC-BFMTV that “the temptation of the Head of State is rather to install at Matignon someone who would be his debtor.”
While Emmanuel Macron receives the former socialist Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve as part of his consultations to form a government, Olivier Faure affirms that the socialists will vote a motion of censure against any government “of continuity with Macronism”.
“The question is not a question of casting, the question is ‘what for?'” declared the First Secretary of the Socialist Party on RMC-BFMTV this Monday, September 2.
“We will censor any form of continuity with Macronism,” he added.
Bernard Cazeneuve “was” a socialist
Former Socialist Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve and Les Républicains (LR) President of Hauts-de-France Xavier Bertrand will be received on Monday by Emmanuel Macron, who is still looking for a head of government, almost two months after legislative elections which led to a National Assembly without an absolute majority.
Bernard Cazeneuve “is going to this meeting with the availability to serve the country, in order to avoid further difficulties,” his entourage told BFMTV.
Minister of the Interior during the 2015 attacks, then Prime Minister during the last months of François Hollande’s five-year term, Bernard Cazeneuve, 61, left the PS in 2022, fiercely opposed to the alliance with LFI within the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes).
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A disagreement noted by Olivier Faure on Monday, who stressed that Bernard Cazeneuve “was” a socialist: “I don’t know in the name of what Bernard Cazeneuve is going to go and speak with the head of state, we’ll see,” he said.
Emmanuel Macron, who could make the appointment on Tuesday, is looking for a prime minister who will not be immediately censured in the National Assembly.
Faure calls for new negotiations
It was by putting forward this reason that he rejected the nomination of Lucie Castets, presented by the parties of the New Popular Front (LFI-PS-Ecologistes-PCF), a left-wing alliance that came out on top in the last legislative elections. The New Popular Front nevertheless still demands to form the government. Olivier Faure repeated on Monday on RMC-BFMTV that “the logic” would be to “appoint the force that came out on top” in the legislative elections. On Friday, the leader of the LFI deputies, Mathilde Panot, had stated that the rebels would oppose “any government that is not led by Lucie Castets”.
“The temptation of the head of state is rather to install at Matignon someone who would be obliged to him and who would allow him to continue more or less what he has done for 7 years,” deplored Olivier Faure.
“What I am calling for this morning is not to choose a Prime Minister on the basis of his personal qualities or his CV, what I am calling for is negotiation,” said the leader of the PS.
