Emmanuel Macron “took note” of the resignation of Michel Barnier. The President of the Republic has “taken note” of the resignation of his Prime Minister and the government, announces the Élysée. The two men spoke this Thursday morning for almost an hour, when the Prime Minister submitted his resignation. “Michel Barnier ensures, with members of the government, the handling of current affairs until the appointment of a new government,” specifies the French presidency.
Emmanuel Macron assures that he will appoint a Prime Minister “in the coming days”. During his speech this Thursday evening, the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron declared that he would appoint “a Prime Minister in the coming days”, for a government of “general interest”. The “priority” of the government that this future head of government will constitute “will be the budget,” added the head of state. The president also acknowledged that his decision to dissolve the National Assembly in June, which plunged France into a political crisis, “was not understood”. “Many have blamed me for this decision and I know, many continue to blame me. It’s a fact and it’s my responsibility,” he said, while accusing the far-left and far-right oppositions of having united “in an anti-republican front.”
Macron assures that he will fulfill his mandate “fully, until its end”. Emmanuel Macron, resigning president ? This was a request made by many political leaders for several weeks, from Jean-Luc Mélenchon to Jean-François Copé. A hypothesis excluded by the Head of State: “I will exercise it [son mandat, NDLR] fully until its end,” he assured. The departure of the Head of State is desired by 59% to 61% of French people, according to Odoxa and Elabe polls published Thursday.
“Hollow and pretentious chatter”: Mélenchon tackles Macron, “the cause of the problem”. Guest of the 8 p.m. television news on TF1, the leader of La France insoumise Jean-Luc Mélenchon spoke about Emmanuel Macron's speech. “I heard empty, pretentious chatter. He gives lessons to everyone, counting on the fact that the French do not understand what is happening,” denounced Jean-Luc Mélenchon. “There was censorship because there was 49.3. It's the vote of an assembly, it's the life of Parliament, and Emmanuel Macron calls it anti-Republican! »
Macron will receive the heads of the parliamentary groups of the PS, the Macronist camp and LR on Friday. Emmanuel Macron will receive the heads of the parliamentary groups of the Socialist Party, the presidential camp and the Les Républicains party on Friday, we learned from parliamentary sources and within the executive. At the start of the morning, the Head of State must receive the leaders of his camp (Renaissance, Modem, Horizons, etc.). Then at the end of the morning the head of the socialist deputies Boris Vallaud and his Senate counterpart Patrick Kanner, as well as the party leader Olivier Faure, according to a socialist framework. At the start of the afternoon, it will be the turn of the LR leaders. La France insoumise, the National Rally or even the Ecologists were not invited at this stage, according to these sources.
“I will not work with the left,” declares Bruno Retailleau. In an interview given to Figarothe resigning Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau said he was “ready to continue and finish [s]we work in Beauvau.” “But it is obvious that there are conditions under which I will refuse my participation in the government,” he continued. I will not work with the left. »
Marine Tondelier regrets that the Ecologists are not invited by Emmanuel Macron. “In the moment of gravity that France is going through, all this is not up to par,” declared the head of the Ecologists on the BFMTV set.
