Un Insubordinate at Matignon? MP Sophia Chikirou, re-elected in the first round in the 6the Paris constituency, claims that the New Popular Front agreement provides that in the event of victory in the legislative elections, the Prime Minister will come from La France Insoumise. “We have candidates to be Prime Minister, we have demonstrated it in the debates, we will know how to do it,” she assured the press on Monday 1is July.
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“It will either be Mélenchon at Matignon, or another Insoumis. […] All I ask of the voters is to ensure that the Insoumis deputies are strong in the National Assembly, very numerous, very present, because the New Popular Front owes us a lot, and we owe it too. […] The agreement is that the Prime Minister comes from our ranks,” she nevertheless conceded.
“It’s all lunar”
For François Ruffin, outgoing LFI MP for the Somme, “all this is crazy”. According to him, this is not the current issue. “The discussion today is: will there be an absolute majority for the National Rally?” he said on RMC.
READ ALSO Mélenchon won, even if he lostSince the announcement of an agreement on the left, the question of the Prime Minister has been raised repeatedly, with the omnipresence of the Insoumis leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon, considered a deterrent by the socialists, the ecologists and the communists. But, according to the head of the Ecologists, Marine Tondelier, the left-wing candidate will be chosen by “consensus” in the event of a victory of the New Popular Front in the legislative elections. Jean-Luc Mélenchon “will not be Prime Minister”, she assured on Monday, June 24, while the Insoumis leader is projecting himself at Matignon.
