This Saturday, September 7, the name of Michel Barnier, the new Prime Minister, is on everyone’s lips. While the president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella, demands that “the subjects of the National Rally” be taken into account by the future government, France Insoumise is organizing its response in the streets and calling for demonstrations in dozens of cities against Emmanuel Macron’s “coup de force”. Jean-Luc Mélenchon urged his troops to “the most powerful mobilization possible”.
Key information to remember
⇒ Jordan Bardella demands from Michel Barnier that “the subjects of the National Rally” be taken into account
⇒ LFI plays the street against Emmanuel Macron’s “coup de force”
⇒ Edouard Philippe denies being “in an effort to destabilize” the president
First trip for Barnier to a Parisian hospital
Michel Barnier will make his first trip as Prime Minister to a Parisian hospital this Saturday, “to listen” to caregivers and hospital staff, his entourage announced. Michel Barnier will go to Necker Hospital in the 15th arrondissement of Paris in the afternoon, where he will take part in a round table with health workers, a topic that is dear to him. On Friday, he had stressed the “immense need” for public services and praised his ability to “negotiate”, to “bring people together” and to “listen to them”.
Future government: Bardella demands that Barnier take into account “RN issues”
Jordan Bardella, on a trip to the Chalons-en-Champagne fair, demanded this Saturday from the new Prime Minister that “the subjects of the National Rally” be taken into account by the future government, considering that the tenant of Matignon was “under surveillance”.
“Mr. Barnier is today at the head of a future fragile government in which he will have to integrate into the concerns, into the action that will be his, the subjects that are those of the National Rally,” Jordan Bardella told the press. “I hope that the Prime Minister and the future government can not only get to work, but that they can be attentive to the demands that are now ours. And I believe that from this day on, Mr. Barnier is a Prime Minister under surveillance. […] of a political party which is now essential in the parliamentary game,” he added.
LFI plays the street against Emmanuel Macron’s “coup de force”
While waiting for the Assembly to reopen (at the latest on October 1), in an attempt to bring down the government and the head of state, the first round is therefore being played out in the streets at the initiative of France Insoumise. The organizers are announcing “150 mobilization points across France” this Saturday, starting with Paris, where the meeting point is set for 2 p.m. on the Place de la Bastille. The leader of the Communist Party Fabien Roussel will also be there, while the leader of the Ecologists Marine Tondelier will march in Lille. The police were anticipating a limited mobilization, around 30,000 demonstrators, including 4 to 8,000 people expected in the capital. But “the mobilization tends to strengthen further with strong activity on social networks and all media outlets,” a police source stressed.
The first mobilizations have already begun in several cities in France, such as Le Mans, Nice and Nantes. In front of the Loire-Atlantique prefecture, the demonstrators gathered from 10:30 a.m. “Appointing Barnier thanks to the agreement of the RN is to trample on the commitment of the youth”, assures the spokesperson of the Union Pirate Nantes, Martin Reniu Marzorati, on BFMTV our microphone.
Edouard Philippe denies being “in an effort to destabilize” Macron
Former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe denied on Saturday that he was leading an “effort to destabilize the President of the Republic” and hoped that Emmanuel Macron would “see his term through to the end”, after having made his candidacy for the Elysée official this week.
“What is clear is that I am not at all in the business of destabilizing the President of the Republic. I have too much respect for the institutions and I think that the moment is too dangerous for anyone to try to do that,” declared the leader of the Horizons party to the daily newspaper. Paris Normandy“It is essential for the institutions that he completes his mandate,” also estimated Edouard Philippe, to whom some have attributed the intention of betting on a possible impediment of Emmanuel Macron, due to political instability, before the deadline of 2027.