Consultations, continuation and end? After the left, the right and his own camp on Friday, Emmanuel Macron receives the leaders of the extreme right on Monday, as well as the presidents of the Assembly and the Senate, with a view to finally appointing a new Prime Minister.
Key information to remember
⇒ Yaël Braun-Pivet is expected at 9:30 a.m. at the Elysée
⇒ Chenu (RN) wants to censor any government from the NFP
⇒ Bayrou: the NFP program is “dangerous for the country”
A busy day at the Elysée
Another day of negotiations at the Elysée. The President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet is expected there at 9:30 a.m. to open the ball, which her counterpart from the Senate Gérard Larcher will close at 5:00 p.m. The two heads of Parliament will in the meantime make a joint appearance early in the afternoon at the Medef summer university.
The main meeting on the presidential agenda will however be the interview with Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella at 10:45. The leaders of the National Rally will be followed at 12:00 by their new ally Eric Ciotti.
Chenu (RN) wants to censor any government from the NFP
The far right, which has given up on Matignon after its defeat in the legislative elections, will have the opportunity to remind the head of state of its refusal of a left-wing government, with or without Insoumis ministers. “We will censor any government that comes from the New Popular Front, but especially that applies the program of the New Popular Front,” indicated Sébastien Chenu, Monday on France 2.
“It’s not a story about men, it’s a story about a program,” assured the vice-president of the RN, hammering home his desire to “ban from the political system” La France Insoumise, an “anti-republican party” which, according to him, carries a project that is “harmful for the country.”
Mélenchon opens the door to non-participation of LFI
A scathing rebuff to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who hoped to defuse the multiple threats of censorship by opening the door during the weekend to a non-participation of LFI: a pledge of goodwill to allow the nomination to Matignon of Lucie Castets, candidate designated by the NFP.
Bayrou: NFP program is “dangerous for the country”
This political coup was unanimously welcomed on the left, because it pushed its opponents to reveal themselves. And to admit, like François Bayrou on Sunday on LCI, that “opposition to the formation of a government around LFI” is justified “mainly because of the program” of the NFP, which is according to him “dangerous for the country.”
Marcangeli (Horizons): an NFP program that would cause a “crisis”
“It is a programme which, if implemented, would cause a crisis,” also predicted the leader of the Horizons deputies, Laurent Marcangeli, promising in Le Figaro to oppose it “with all the instruments that the Constitution offers us.”
Wauquiez wants to block LFI
Red line turning scarlet for Laurent Wauquiez: the leader of the Republican Right deputies reaffirmed on Sunday his desire to “block” LFI, from his point of view “without doubt the greatest political danger for our country”.
The budget emergency
More than the RN therefore, whose abstention remains essential in order to install a centre-right government and pass a budget before the end of the year.
This budget will have to be presented before October 1st, which requires Emmanuel Macron to quickly appoint a successor to Gabriel Attal, who has been managing day-to-day affairs at Matignon for 41 days now, something never seen since the post-war period.
Macron: “unite beyond all divisions”
The president, who was celebrating the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Paris on Sunday, seems tempted to play extra time. After a heartfelt tribute to “all those who shared a certain idea of France” and were able to unite “beyond all divisions”, he could speak again on Monday, before new consultations that would be organized on Tuesday, according to the Elysée.