“The Insoumis will only govern to implement their program, nothing but the program,” said Manuel Bompard, the coordinator of La France insoumise, on BFMTV on Tuesday. A rejection of the “proposal for a plural assembly” by Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, on TF 1 on Monday. The Bouches-du-Rhône MP, re-elected on Sunday in the first round of the legislative elections, ruled out the idea of a grand coalition if no absolute majority emerged at the end of the second round on July 7.
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“I am in a campaign where the objective is to have a majority to be able to govern with a New Popular Front government on Sunday. That is what is at stake today,” added Manuel Bompard, recalling that the left-wing bloc won 27.99% of the vote, in second place behind the National Rally with 29.25%.
“Let him decide to repeal the pension reform, if he wants to take steps”
As the parties get into gear for the second round, agreeing year after year to form a republican front against the RN, Gabriel Attal expressed his hope on TF1 on Monday evening that a “plural assembly” would emerge from the ballot boxes, with the president of Hauts-de-France Xavier Bertrand (Les Républicains) calling for a “government of national revival”.
Asked about this step by the head of government towards the union of the left, Manuel Bompard replied: “Let him decide to repeal the pension reform, if he wants to take steps.”
But “I will not participate in any government that does not restore fiscal justice, that does not implement a policy of wealth distribution other than that which was put in place by Gabriel Attal and by Emmanuel Macron himself,” he assured again, launching: “Let him decide to repeal the pension reform, if he wants to take steps.” The Prime Minister has already announced the suspension of the unemployment insurance reform.
