► Calls for a demonstration on September 7
La France Insoumise and several student union organizations are calling for “a big demonstration against the coup” Emmanuel Macron’s election on September 7, they announced in press releases on Tuesday, August 27.
While the President of the Republic rejected on Monday the hypothesis of a government led by the New Popular Front (NFP), LFI joined the call launched by the Student Union and the High School Union (USL) for a “demonstration against the autocracy of Emmanuel Macron”.
LFI urges political, union and associative forces “committed to the defense of democracy to join this call”The radical left party demands “a firm response from French society in the face of the exceptional gravity of the situation”.
► Representatives of the Liot group received at the Élysée
The president of the Liot group (Liberties, Independents, Overseas and Territories), Stéphane Lenormand, accompanied by MP Christophe Naegelen, will be received at the Élysée from 11:30 a.m., as part of the consultations led by the President of the Republic to appoint a Prime Minister.
The centrist Liot group has 21 deputies. Already received on Friday at the Élysée, Stéphane Lenormand had indicated that the presence within the New Popular Front of La France Insoumise was for him a “blocking point”.
► Lucie Castets denounces a denial of democracy
Emmanuel Macron “wants to be president, prime minister and party leader at the same time, this is not respectful of the French people or of democracy”lamented Lucie Castets on France Inter, after the President of the Republic decided on Monday to exclude the option of an NFP government.
“He cannot form the government of his dreams”launched the left-wing candidate for Matignon, saying “available to discuss again if it concerns the terms of a cohabitation”in order to “to get France out of its current immobility”.
► Olivier Faure (PS) refuses to be “an accomplice in a parody of democracy”
The first secretary of the Socialist Party Olivier Faure will not go to the Élysée for the second round of consultations to find a prime minister, he announced on France 2, refusing to be “accomplice in a parody of democracy”.
While Emmanuel Macron has ruled out the option of a left-wing government led by Lucie Castets, while inviting the PS, the ecologists and the communists to “cooperate with other political forces”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”.
► NFP government dismissed: Macron arouses fury on the left
After formally ruling out appointing an NFP government, citing the “institutional stability”Emmanuel Macron announced new consultations from Tuesday.
Following a first wave of interviews held on Friday and Monday at the Élysée with party leaders, seven weeks after the legislative elections which plunged the country into political impasse, the head of state is still unable to appoint a prime minister.
Despite pressure from the NFP, which has the largest number of deputies but remains far from an absolute majority, he refused to install Lucie Castets, the senior civil servant chosen by the left-wing alliance, at Matignon.
► LFI, RN and Ciotti not invited to the Élysée for new consultations
Emmanuel Macron does not intend to invite the leaders of La France Insoumise, the National Rally and Eric Ciotti’s parliamentary group to the Élysée Palace for the new consultations on Tuesday, a close friend of the president has declared.
The head of state should receive political leaders with the exception of these three parties, he said. Asked about the refusal of the parties of the New Popular Front, which includes the socialists, the ecologists and the communists in addition to the rebels, to participate in new discussions, this close friend of Emmanuel Macron blamed them “responsibility for the blockage”.
NFP members have already warned that going there is out of the question, since it is not a question of discussing the establishment of a Castets government.
