On the morning of Thursday, September 5, the New Popular Front (NFP), clearly still harboring some hope, issued yet another press release urging Emmanuel Macron – after sixty days of waiting and a litany of names being thrown around – to finally appoint Lucie Castets, its candidate, to Matignon. “to get out of the impasse.” Yet another exhortation that echoes, yet again, into the void.
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A few hours later, at midday, Michel Barnier, a member of the Les Républicains (LR) party, was appointed Prime Minister by Emmanuel Macron. New press releases immediately came out, emanating from the headquarters of the various partners in the left-wing alliance. Unanimously, they promised to fight the new government.
Like its other NFP partners, the Socialist Party (PS) announced in a press release that it will censure Michel Barnier, on the grounds that he “has neither political legitimacy nor republican legitimacy.” The first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure, deplores a “Democratic denial taken to its peak” with the appointment of“a prime minister from the party that came in fourth place and who did not even participate in the Republican front [contre le RN] ». “We are entering a regime crisis”he concluded.
“A middle finger to the French”
On YouTube, the founder of La France insoumise (LFI) Jean-Luc Mélenchon is just as definitive. “The election [législative] was stolen from the French. The message was denied”he protests, while the NFP came out on top, but without an absolute majority.
The same tone was echoed by the former deputy of the North and national secretary of the Communist Party (PC), Fabien Roussel. For him, the choice of the former right-wing European commissioner is “a middle finger to the French who aspire to change”. “It’s a real scandal,” Marine Tondelier, the leader of the environmentalists, protests in turn.
For François Hollande, traveling to the Châlons-en-Champagne fair, “there is almost certainty” that if Michel Barnier could have been designated by Mr. Macron, “It is because the National Rally [RN] gave a form of discharge. The former President of the Republic believes that the new head of government will have to “to explain it” before the Assembly.
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As for Lucie Castets, she castigates, with Mediaparta prime minister with “reactionary ideas”The senior civil servant refers in particular to the opposition of Michel Barnier, then a young 30-year-old MP, to the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1981. A position immediately denounced, also, by Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
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