The first post-legislative Council of Ministers will meet from 11:30 this Tuesday, July 16, and could pave the way for Gabriel Attal to resign, even if the Prime Minister would remain in place to manage “current affairs”. The left, for its part, is struggling to agree on proposing its candidate for Matignon.
Key information to remember
⇒ Manuel Bompard (LFI) considers “not serious” the idea of the other members of the NFP to propose Laurence Tubiana for Matignon
⇒ The left struggles to agree on a candidate for a future Prime Minister
⇒ The first post-legislative Council of Ministers meets this Tuesday
Olivier Faure believes that the Insoumis cannot “impose themselves on everyone else”
The Insoumis cannot “impose themselves on everyone else”, said the First Secretary of the Socialist Party Olivier Faure on France Inter on Tuesday, who maintains the hypothesis of a candidacy of climate specialist Laurence Tubiana for Matignon despite her rejection by Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s party.
He said that “three out of four” parties in the New Popular Front (NFP) were in favour of this candidacy.
Manuel Bompard rejects Laurence Tubiana’s “unserious” proposal
Invited to Télématin on France 2, LFI coordinator Manuel Bompard considered “not serious” the idea of the other members of the New Popular Front to propose climate specialist Laurence Tubiana for Matignon because that would “bring the Macronists back in through the window.”
“If this is indeed the profile that our partners are working on, I am falling off my chair,” declared Manuel Bompard, who criticizes Laurence Tubiana for having “signed a column four days ago in which she called for the formation of a coalition and a common program with the Macronists.”
The left struggles to agree on a candidate for Matignon
The socialists, environmentalists and communists proposed the name of Laurence Tubiana to LFI on Monday evening to run for Matignon, as a civil society personality. This proposal has been circulating “for some time” with the “goodwill of the three parties”, indicates a source, confirming information from L’Opinion and Franceinfo. Laurence Tubiana is an academic, a linchpin of the 2015 Paris Agreement and then of the Citizens’ Convention on Climate.
His profile has already been criticized on social media by the Insoumis who accuse him of being close to Emmanuel Macron.
A few days earlier, it was Huguette Bello, president of the La Réunion region and former member of the Communist Party, whose name had been put forward by the PCF and the Insoumis, who announced that she was declining the proposal, acknowledging the fact that her candidacy was “not the subject of a consensus between all the components of the New Popular Front, and in particular that it is not supported by the Socialist Party”. LFI accuses the Socialist Party of blocking the negotiations, and announced in a press release on Monday that the party would not participate “in any additional discussions on the formation of the government until the single candidacy for the National Assembly has been acquired and the vote has taken place”.
A first post-legislative Council of Ministers will meet this Tuesday
The government has a meeting at the Elysée Palace with Emmanuel Macron for the first Council of Ministers since the New Popular Front came out on top in the legislative elections, with a new Assembly divided into three blocs – left, presidential camp and RN – deprived of a clear majority.
The head of state could accept Gabriel Attal’s resignation. The current team would continue to manage “current affairs”, particularly during the very sensitive period of the Paris Olympic Games (July 26 to August 11). This new configuration would ensure “in the name of continuity, the minimal functioning of the State”, explains a note from the general secretariat of the government (SGG) dated July 2.
The situation would also offer ministers elected as deputies the possibility of regaining their parliamentary mandate to participate in the election for the presidency of the National Assembly on Thursday, then on Friday and Saturday in the allocation of strategic posts in the Palais Bourbon. Gabriel Attal would thus be both the resigning Prime Minister and the president of the Ensemble pour la République group, the new name for Renaissance, which raises questions about the separation of powers, say lawyers such as Benjamin Morel.