Would a resignation of Emmanuel Macron be the solution to emerge from the political crisis caused by the dissolution of the National Assembly? In any case, this is what Charles de Courson, elected centrist and general budget rapporteur to the Assembly, believe, as well as the LR mayor of Maux, Jean-François Copé. On Wednesday, November 27, both pleaded for a resignation of the President of the Republic.
The government, which does not have a majority in the Assembly, and could activate article 49.3 of the Constitution next Monday to force through the Social Security financing bill for 2025, fears in return censorship from deputies . If Prime Minister Michel Barnier were to play the role of fuse, France would nevertheless risk remaining in a political impasse, the hemicycle remaining divided into three blocks, without any solid majority seeming to emerge. And new legislative elections cannot be called before the summer of 2025.
“The problem is the political chaos that[Emmanuel Macron] has triggered”, Charles de Courson, deputy of the Liot group (Liberties, Independents, Overseas and Territories), told the press. Whatever minister is appointed “he will not have a majority. The only solution would be a resignation of the president.”
On BFMTV, Jean-François Copé, former boss of the political family from which Prime Minister Michel Barnier comes, agreed. “We are all victims of this dissolution which is unlike anything and for which we pay the price every day,” he explained, also believing that the only solution “to resolve the problem would be a new presidential election”. “It is only Emmanuel Macron who has not realized – but it will be necessary that at one time or another, his friends or those who like him tell him – that he does not cannot last until 2027,” he stressed.
From left to far right
These calls join those made last week, on the left this time, by François Ruffin. “I think he can think about (his departure), think about it seriously, see in what situation he has placed the country,” he judged on Franceinfo the MP broke with the rebellious group on Thursday, November 21. Emmanuel Macron has “shrunk France” on the domestic and international scene, François Ruffin scathed, “the assessment, Macron, I would like him to draw it up with lucidity”.
La France insoumise had, for its part, launched impeachment proceedings against Emmanuel Macron at the end of the summer. Supported by 81 deputies from LFI and the Ecologist group, but not by the Socialist Party, the procedure was ultimately unsuccessful.
Same point of view at the opposite extreme of the hemicycle: Sébastien Chenu, RN deputy from the North, estimated Monday on BFMTV that “the departure of the president will be imposed on him if the country freezes”. “If the motion of censure is ever passed, it is up to Emmanuel Macron to draw the consequences,” said Edwige Diaz, RN deputy for Gironde, adding that she would “rejoice” in the event of resignation.
“A presidential election in the state of the world?”
In a dissonant voice, former President François Hollande rejected calls for Emmanuel Macron to resign. “Having a presidential election in the state the world is in, in the situation the country is in with the markets watching us? Do you think that’s the right solution? No, I don’t think so,” he said. -he said. “The rebels are obsessed with bringing down, not the Barnier government, but Emmanuel Macron and having a presidential election to present Jean-Luc Mélenchon as a candidate. Listen, I’m sorry, I’m not in this position -there”.
According to an Elabe poll for BFMTV, a large majority of French people (63%) believe that the President of the Republic should resign if the government was censored, with just over half of them (53%) considering him responsible for the current political situation. In a letter addressed to the French published in the regional press in June, after the dissolution, Emmanuel Macron seemed to rule out leaving the Elysée before his time, promising then “to act until May 2027”.