The New Popular Front and Lucie Castets will ultimately not compromise: “never will a text coming” from the extreme right be voted on. At the same time, her schedule is filling up. Between trips and meetings, the left-wing candidate has not given up on Matignon.
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- Emmanuel Macron has postponed the appointment of a new Prime Minister and government until after the Olympic Games, i.e. not before “mid-August”. For the time being, it is therefore the resigning government of Gabriel Attal that is managing current affairs.
- Consequently, it is the Attal government that is preparing the finance bill that will be presented to Parliament at the beginning of October, with a view to the 2025 budget. A situation that displeases the left, which still hopes to form an executive after its victory in the legislative elections: on Saturday, environmentalist Marine Tondelier accused Emmanuel Macron of “sabotage”.
- NFP candidate for Prime Minister Lucie Castets recently backtracked on the RN. Last Thursday on BFMTV, she assured that voting for a text from the National Rally, for example for the repeal of the pension reform “will have to be discussed”. Change of speech, yesterday, in La Tribune Dimanche: she will “never vote for a text coming” from the extreme right.
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Lucie Castets, the NFP candidate for Matignon if Emmanuel Macron were to appoint a left-wing Prime Minister, has a busy schedule. According to Politico, a second trip is being prepared – after a first one in Lille last Saturday – and it will take place this Wednesday, July 31, on the themes of work and industry. That same day, she will also meet with the inter-union with the bosses of the CGT and CFDT, Sophie Binet and Marylise Léon, again according to Politico.
“We are really working (…) we are showing that we are on the ground, that we are listening to the French people” the entourage of the 37-year-old senior civil servant told the media. But that’s not all! Lucie Castets will also have to meet with the party leaders of the left-wing alliance this week. The meetings with Olivier Faure, Marine Tondelier, Fabien Roussel and Manuel Bompard are scheduled for Tuesday, July 30 and Friday, August 2, according to Politico.
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How soon will the new government be appointed?
Emmanuel Macron called for a “political truce” for the duration of the Olympic Games, while Gabriel Attal’s government resigned on July 16. The President of the Republic estimated that no new government would be appointed before “mid-August”, preferring “stability” for the duration of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Given the composition of the National Assembly, the President of the Republic has set himself the task of finding a Prime Minister capable of gathering the support of at least 289 deputies, in order to ensure stability. The same applies to the ministers that the latter will then have to propose. Otherwise, the new government as a whole would be exposed to a motion of censure which, if voted for by more than half of the elected representatives, would lead to the overthrow of the ministerial team. It would therefore be necessary to start all over again.
The problem is that Emmanuel Macron will have to accommodate all sensitivities, from the left of course, from the center naturally, but also from the right. If the NFP came out on top, the head of state has already ruled out governing with the LFI deputies. So out goes these sixty elected officials, who could be compensated by the sixty LR who should once again join the Palais Bourbon. Finding personalities who suit the ecologists, socialists, communists, macronists and republicans will not be easy. Not to mention the programmatic points on which everyone will have to agree. The negotiations are still expected to be long and complex. Suffice to say that Gabriel Attal should make extra…
Long and complex negotiations also took place on the left, before the NFP reached an agreement, on Tuesday July 23, just one hour before Emmanuel Macron’s interview on France 2. After several weeks of procrastination, the left-wing parties of the NFP agreed on the name of the senior civil servant, spokesperson for Our Public Services, Lucie Castets, for Matignon.