She was one of the personalities mentioned as an option for Matignon on behalf of the New Popular Front (NFP). Economist and climate diplomat Laurence Tubiana announced on Monday, July 22, that she would “take note” of the opposition within the NFP and renounce her candidacy for the post of Prime Minister. Before her, the President of Réunion, Huguette Bello, suffered a similar fate: at one time considered, she finally renounced due to a lack of agreement between the four parties of the left-wing coalition.
Key information to remember
⇒ Laurence Tubiana renounces her candidacy for the post of Prime Minister
⇒ LFI wants an appeal from the Élysée before proposing a name for Matignon
⇒ Green MP Sandrine Rousseau does not believe in a vote by MPs before Tuesday
Marine Tondelier “sorry” about Laurence Tubiana’s withdrawal
The head of the Ecologists, Marine Tondelier, said she was “sorry” about Laurence Tubiana’s withdrawal, which she “understands well”. “We share with you the need for appeasement, and for our coalition of the New Popular Front and our country”, she wrote. on XThe same story from the socialist deputy Arthur Delaporte, on the same social network : “Laurence Tubiana notes that she does not have a consensus. What a shame. She would have been a great NFP prime minister.”
Matignon: Laurence Tubiana gives up being a candidate for the NFP
Climate diplomat Laurence Tubiana, whose name had been proposed by the Socialist Party to be Prime Minister of the New Popular Front, “acknowledges” this Monday the “oppositions” within the left and renounces her bid for the post, she announced. on X“We need a policy of democratic revitalization that responds to the social emergency and the challenges of the ecological transition. However, I note that this has encountered opposition within the NFP,” she writes.
The name of Laurence Tubiana, 73, was validated by the ecologists and the communists, but rejected by the Insoumis who found her too moderate. Saying she does not believe “for a single second in the myth of the providential woman or man”, she says she is “convinced that the left has the duty and the capacity to exercise the responsibilities to which the voters have called it”. “We must move forward”, she concludes.
LFI wants a call from the Élysée before proposing a name for Matignon
The coordinator of La France insoumise, Manuel Bompard, wants a call from the Élysée before proposing a name for Matignon. “We must take things step by step. The responsibility today lies with the President of the Republic to turn to the New Popular Front to ask it to form a government. If it does, we will end our discussions and when we have finished our discussions, we will actually propose a candidate,” he declared on Europe1/Cnews this Monday morning.
A vote by the deputies before Tuesday? Sandrine Rousseau does not believe it
Green MP Sandrine Rousseau said on BFMTV/RMC this Monday that she no longer really believes in a vote by Tuesday, given that “MPs are a bit out of the game” after the end of parliamentary work to elect the governing bodies of the National Assembly.
Manuel Bompard (LFI) reaffirmed his opposition to a vote among the New Popular Front deputies to choose this candidate on whom the left has not been able to agree for two weeks now. “If we were to hold a vote today, it is possible that we would not allow this consensus to see the light of day and therefore that this coalition of the new Popular Front would separate or divide. […] “I hope that we find a solution through consensus,” he repeated, reiterating as a “condition” that “the program of the new Popular Front can be implemented.”
The socialists had requested on Friday a vote by the deputies of the four groups of the New Popular Front before Tuesday.