François Bayrou insisted on this: he took his phone to personally call the different group presidents. Some answered, others missed the call or did not recognize the number displayed. The idea was to invite everyone to Matignon between Monday and Tuesday, before the formation of a government.
“The Prime Minister wants to know what they have to say,” summarizes a close friend. Which assures that it is in no way a question of making back-kitchen agreements or secret pacts. “François Bayrou acts with transparency and respect. Political life is determined at the moment by the groups in the Assembly, so it was taken in descending order of size, it is coherent and should not be overinterpreted,” said a lieutenant.
Consequence: it is Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella who are expected first in the Matignon courtyard, from 9 a.m. Will follow the leader of the Macronist deputies Gabriel Attal, who will return to an office that he left three months ago. Matignon then planned to receive the Insoumis, the third group at the Palais-Bourbon. Calls were made to Mathilde Panot (from Saturday) as well as to movement executives or collaborators to ensure that the message had been transmitted. The Prime Minister’s entourage insisted…
The new Prime Minister wanted to avoid the empty chair or give the impression that there were groups excluded in principle (as was the case last Tuesday at the Élysée). Wasted effort. Sunday at 6 p.m., LFI indicated that “since the Prime Minister has not yet formed a government and has not yet appeared before the National Assembly, we will not participate” in these discussions. And added that it was a “comedy” aimed “to make people believe that Mr. Bayrou could do tomorrow the opposite of what he has always done.”
Proof that the New Popular Front is experiencing strategic dissensions, the PS has decided to be there: Olivier Faure, the First Secretary of the Socialist Party, told François Bayrou, who called him on Sunday morning. The socialist remained awaiting this contact and set his conditions for a non-censorship agreement in Le Parisien. “The first is to respond to the French, and therefore to reopen the debate on the priority projects of the NFP, on pensions, purchasing power, local and national public services, ecological transition, democracy, develop the leader of the socialists. Then, the method must change by denying itself the ease of forceful passages. Finally, any form of betrayal of the Republican Front by taking up all or part of the far-right program will be punished. »
A new law on immigration carried by Bruno Retailleau is also one of its red lines. He will be accompanied by group presidents Patrick Kanner (Senate) and Boris Vallaud (National Assembly).
Laurent Wauquiez, the leader of the LR group at the assembly, is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Then, we will have to wait until the next day for the second salvo. The representatives of the Ecologists (Marine Tondelier and François Bayrou spoke to each other), of Horizons, of the MoDem (the Prime Minister's party), of the independents of Liot, of the Communists will pass in turn. Éric Ciotti, at the head of a group of 16 deputies, will bring up the rear.
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