“He has no choice”says someone close to the president.
Between the opposition's attacks and the complexity of finding the ideal candidate for Matignon, Emmanuel Macron is caught in a bind. A serious political crisis.
A day which should take him until his televised intervention this Thursday evening, 8 p.m. To follow live on lindependant.fr.
Yaël Braun-Pivet asks Emmanuel Macron to “quickly” appoint a Prime Minister
The President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet asked Emmanuel Macron this Thursday to “quickly” appoint a Prime Minister to replace Michel Barnier censored the day before because “we must not allow uncertainty” to take hold. If a new government is quickly appointed, the President of the Assembly hoped on France inter that it would continue “the parliamentary shuttle on the social security bill which was not adopted with the adoption of the motion to censorship”. (AFP)
Eric Ciotti voted against “a bad budget”
On Europe 1, the president of the Union of Rights for the Republic affirms: “I based myself on the Constitution, what we wanted to do is not oppose a person, but we wanted to bring down a text, a bad budget”.
-Xavier Bertrand and Laurent Wauquiez destroy the RN and LFI
Laurent Wauquiez (Les Républicains) announced that his party will not “bring down” the future government, even if he decides not to participate, this Thursday on the Télématin set. “We will not be stuck, we will not be in the strategy of the worst (…), we will not bring down the government, we will not do what Marine Le Pen (RN) did,” said he declared.
A speech repeated by Xavier Bertrand on BFM TV, who pointed out the personal interests favored by Marine Le Pen (RN) and Jean-Luc Mélenchon (LFI), to the detriment of the interests of all French people.
The only member of the National Rally who did not vote for the mention of censorship is from the Pyrénées-Orientales
Sophie Blanc, RN deputy for the first constituency of Pyrénées-Orientales, did not vote for the motion of censure against the Barnier government. The elected official was apparently absent this Wednesday, her seat was empty during Marine Le Pen's speech.
France
