The left has been waiting for a phone call from Emmanuel Macron… for 179 days. Arriving at the top of the second round of legislative elections on July 7, she still hopes to see a prime minister from her camp appointed. Thursday, December 5, the day after the adoption of the motion of censure against Michel Barnier, Patrick Kanner, president of the socialist group in the Senate, checked that his phone was working perfectly. “The president has my number. If he calls me, I have to give you a few moments”explains the senator from the North, who was having lunch near the start of the demonstration of civil servants against the 2025 draft budget and the defense of public services, in front of the Ministry of Finance (Paris 12e). A form of joke, certainly. But that lets a lot of resignation shine through.
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The miracle finally happened. A few hours later, his office received a phone call from the Elysée, warning him that Emmanuel Macron would receive him on Friday, at noon, with his counterpart in the National Assembly, Boris Vallaud, and the first secretary of the Party socialist (PS), Olivier Faure. Their party is therefore the only one, on the left, to be invited to discuss.
-The three socialists had sent a letter to the Head of State in which they asked to be received « in order to confront [leurs] points of view on the possible outcomes of a way out of the crisis”. Olivier Faure is optimistic about the identity of the future tenant of Matignon: “I hope for an answer. Even if public rumor says that he will not appoint a left-wing prime minister. » This is the state of mind of a part of the left: without illusion, but not inactive, and above all keen to distance itself from La France insoumise (LFI), which is now focusing on its calls for the resignation of the head of state.
On November 24 on France Inter, Boris Vallaud proposed a way out of the crisis by suggesting a non-censorship agreement. The method, initially obscure, has since been refined. “It’s simpleexplains Pierre Jouvet, number two of the PS. To find the path to stability, we want a left-wing Prime Minister who builds a method and compromises, with the forces of the Republican Front, on the basis of the priority projects of the New Popular Front. [NFP]. We undertake not to use 49.3 [l’article de la Constitution qui permet de faire adopter un texte sans vote] if the other parties undertake not to censor the government in order to keep the parliamentary debate alive. »
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