Shaking hands with all the white coats on his way, Michel Barnier made his first trip as Prime Minister to the Paris emergency medical services this weekend, “listening” to caregivers, assuring that even “without performing a miracle” for health “we can make progress”.
Key information to remember
⇒ François Hollande will vote for the motion of censure against Barnier
⇒ Lescure will not “automatically” give his trust to Barnier
⇒ Braun-Pivet calls on socialists and environmentalists to work with Macronists and LR
Hollande to vote for motion of censure against Barnier
Former Socialist President François Hollande announced on Monday that he would vote for censure against Michel Barnier (LR) in the National Assembly to bring down his government “supported by the extreme right”. “How can we accept that the French who wanted to push aside the extreme right, who wanted there to be change […]how do you expect us to give our agreement?”, assured the now socialist deputy on France Inter.
He also considered that the socialists would not participate in the Barnier government currently being formed. “Beyond the person of Michel Barnier, when it is a government that is going to be right-wing on a right-wing policy and which is going to be a government supported by the extreme right […]how do you expect socialists or women or men of the left to participate in such a team?” he explained.
Lescure will not “automatically” give his trust to Barnier
The resigning minister Roland Lescure, a figure of the left wing of Macron’s party, will not automatically give his confidence to the government. Barnier if it crosses certain red lines on immigration. The resigning Minister for Industry and Energy adds that he does not wish to continue in government.
“My confidence will not be automatic. I am clear on my red lines,” Roland Lescure declared in an interview with Release Monday. His red lines concern immigration. “When I hear Michel Barnier talking, during the LR primary in 2021, about a ‘moratorium’ on immigration or the elimination of State Medical Aid (AME), I respond: ‘Let’s preserve economic immigration, let’s preserve AME'”, he explains.
Braun-Pivet calls on socialists and environmentalists to work with Macronists and LR
The President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, called on socialists and environmentalists on Monday to join the “relative majority”, which she said was made up of centrists and LR in the Assembly, while the left, on the contrary, plans to censure the Barnier government.
The Prime Minister “is in no way obliged to seek majorities with the National Rally. He already has the entire central arc which is the arc in relative majority in the National Assembly and which elected me to the perch. It is up to the socialist group, the ecologist group to work with us to be able to broaden this majority”, she estimated on Europe 1/Cnews.
“Medical deserts, the question of education, social mobility, the protection of our nation […] “I would not understand if the socialists and the environmentalists refused to sit down at a table to discuss it,” she declared.
Le Pen: “We do not give carte blanche”
Marine Le Pen’s National Rally, which prides itself on its role as arbiter, blew hot and cold this weekend on the government of the new Prime Minister Michel Barnier, between promises not to participate in “the disorder” and threats of censorship.
“We are not giving carte blanche. If over the weeks, the French were to be forgotten or mistreated again, we would not hesitate to censure the government,” thundered Marine Le Pen on Sunday from her stronghold of Hénin-Beaumont, where she was making her return.