The round table continues. Emmanuel Macron invited discussions at the Elysée on Tuesday December 10 at 2 p.m., with all parties “having indicated that they are adopting a logic of compromise”. Objective: “to constitute a government of general interest or to make it possible”, indicated the presidency on Monday. The head of state, who thus excluded the National Rally and La France insoumise from the meeting, wants to “move forward on an agreement concerning a method”. Emmanuel Macron promised a Prime Minister “in the coming days” at the end of last week.
“The solution could no longer be based on an agreement with the National Rally,” declared a little earlier the boss of the Ecologists, Marine Tondelier, after an exchange with the President of the Republic. “He was very clear on the fact that the National Rally, for him, was not within the scope of the parties who wished to discuss,” she added.
After a short truce dedicated to the reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral, the president resumed his consultations this Monday in order to appoint a new Prime Minister, five days after the vote of censure against Michel Barnier. During the day, he received in turn independent deputies from the Liot group (Libertés, Indépendants, Overseas, Territories), environmentalists and communists.
“The country is in an emergency situation”
“We took a step this morning”, affirmed at the end of the interview the boss of the PCF, Fabien Roussel, who came with the “desire to find solutions” but without “setting prerequisites”. Not even that of a left-wing Prime Minister, only “preferable”, or of a repeal of the pension reform – which could be referred to a “social conference”.
Less antagonistic, the Liot deputies only asked for “something which brings together the different sensitivities”, and above all “that it be quick, because the country is in an emergency situation”, summarized their vice-president, Christophe Naegelen.
All political forces, including the head of state, want a rapid solution. But precedents encourage caution: it took 51 days this summer for the tenant of the Elysée to choose Michel Barnier, and several weeks also in the case of his predecessors, Gabriel Attal and Élisabeth Borne.