The name of a Prime Minister is still awaited to form a government. In his letter to the French published on Thursday, Emmanuel Macron indicated that he was leaving it to the different parties to “engage in a sincere and loyal dialogue to build a solid majority, necessarily plural, for the country”. During the discussions within the New Popular Front (NFP), La France Insoumise (LFI) put up for debate a list of four personalities, including Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Key information to remember
⇒ Gabriel Attal favourite to chair the Renaissance group in the Assembly
⇒ The RN promises to censor any government including LFI and/or environmentalist ministers
⇒ Investigation opened after a call to “eliminate” lawyers who signed an anti-RN column
Attal wants to “protect the French from any government” including RN and LFI ministers
Gabriel Attal pledged this morning to “protect the French from any government” including ministers from the National Rally or La France Insoumise, in his profession of faith for the presidency of the Renaissance group in the National Assembly, a copy of which was obtained by AFP.
“With the dissolution and the early legislative elections, we came close to disappearing,” the Prime Minister also acknowledges in this text, on the eve of his probable election at the head of the Renaissance group, which he will propose to rename “Together for the Republic”. “I wish to completely review our methods and our organization, drawing on all the lessons learned since 2017 and even more so since 2022,” also affirms the campaign leader of the presidential camp, in a profession of faith that never mentions Emmanuel Macron.
Gabriel Attal favourite to chair the Renaissance group in the Assembly
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal is the big favorite to take over Saturday at the head of a Renaissance group that was very weakened after the elections, but which managed after a week of very strong tensions to maintain its cohesion for the most part. The candidates have until Friday noon to make themselves known and send their profession of faith. A presentation of the candidates will take place by videoconference in the afternoon on Friday and an electronic vote will take place the following day between 9 a.m. and noon to designate the new group president.
Gabriel Attal, “he is our campaign leader, it is thanks to him that we do not end up with fifty”, praises a Renaissance MP to AFP under cover of anonymity, who does not “see” how victory could escape the Prime Minister and even envisages that he could achieve “unanimity”.
Gabriel Attal is “officially a candidate” for the presidency of the Renaissance group, the group’s former president Sylvain Maillard confirmed this Friday morning.
The RN promises to censor any government including LFI and/or environmentalist ministers
Marine Le Pen promised Thursday evening that the National Rally “will censure any government” including ministers from La France Insoumise or environmentalists, in a clarification of her party’s position after the legislative elections. “There is one thing that is certain: the RN group will censure any government where LFI and environmentalists have ministerial responsibilities,” affirmed the president of the RN sur X group, castigating the institutional “quagmire” following Sunday’s vote.
This position comes as the group’s secretary general Renaud Labaye had cast doubt on the party’s intentions in the event of the establishment of a New Popular Front government. He had in fact indicated that the RN “will not censor” a potential left-wing government if it proposed “consensual measures”, in a statement to Figaro.
Investigation opened after a call to “eliminate” lawyers who signed an anti-RN column
The Paris prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation after a far-right website called for the “elimination” of lawyers who signed an article against the National Rally (RN) between the two rounds of the early legislative elections, AFP learned from concordant sources on Thursday. According to a source close to the investigation, the National Unit for Combating Online Hate (PNLH) of the prosecutor’s office on Friday contacted the Anti-Cybercrime Office (Ofac) of the Versailles judicial police. The procedure was opened for death threats against lawyers and cyberbullying, the prosecutor’s office confirmed.
The Paris Bar Association had forwarded a report to the public prosecutor on July 4, and a group of lawyers, represented by Yann Le Bras and Céline Astolfe, had filed a complaint against the site “Réseau Libre – le réseau des patriotes”.