Communist Party
The national secretary of the PCF Fabien Roussel assured that his party had “voted censorship to protect the French from one of the worst budgets, hard for employees, public services, industry, municipalities”. In his eyes, “the situation is serious! The president must turn to the left to appoint a government capable of building majorities.”
France: Michel Barnier’s government has fallen
Socialist Party
“We must respect this choice and accept a left-wing Prime Minister who is open to compromise,” said PS First Secretary Olivier Faure on France 2. “I hope that we can negotiate a non-censorship agreement, in exchange what we are ready to govern without 49.3,” he added.
The Ecologists
The environmentalist deputy Sandrine Rousseau estimated that “there is no major crisis. (…) It is just the progress of democracy in the face of a President of the Republic who refuses to accept reality, who is in denial of reality: the reality is that he lost,” she insisted.
National gathering
Marine Le Pen justified on TF1 her decision to join the votes of the RN to those of the New Popular Front to bring down Michel Barnier by assuring that the latter had not “kept his promises”, his budget being in her eyes “toxic” for the French. The leader of the RN deputies assured that she would let her successor “work”. “We are going to co-construct – not only with the National Rally, with all the forces present in the National Assembly – a budget which is acceptable to all, and it is this budget which will apply to the French” .
MoDem
In the presidential camp, the MoDem group in the Assembly estimated that by “censoring the Barnier government, the alliance of opposites betrays the voters and reveals its inability to govern under the guise of irresponsibility. Hundreds of measures expected by the French people are thus sacrificed,” he adds.
Horizons
For his part, the president of Horizons, Edouard Philippe, judged on X that “government censorship reinforces political disorder and weakens our country”. “We will do everything to stabilize the political situation. But let’s be clear, we are on the brink of the abyss,” he warned.
Renaissance
At Renaissance, the president of the South region, Renaud Muselier, called for “initiating a process with a view to the constitution of a coalition”, which would begin not with the choice of a new Prime Minister, but “with the development of a program limited in time and ambitions. It “must be implemented by a national safeguard government made up of democratic political forces, the alliance of adversaries against the conspiracy of enemies,” he wrote.
The Republicans
On “We will continue to work for the recovery of the country. Our choice will always be that of the best interests of the Nation and concern for the expectations of the French, as opposed to those who voted for this motion of censure,” he said. he added.
