A head of state facing a complicated political equation. Emmanuel Macron hopes to quickly find a solution to find his future Prime Minister, two days after the censorship of Michel Barnier’s government in the National Assembly. Thursday, December 5, the President of the Republic assured, during a televised speech, that he would appoint a new manager at Matignon “in the coming days”. What will his identity be and who will be able to make up the new team that will accompany him? Uncertainty remains for the moment on all these questions.
The new “arch of government”, called for by Emmanuel Macron, will need to find new compromises in the deeply divided National Assembly. This Friday, several leaders of the Republicans, but also of the Socialist Party, are expected at the Élysée to meet the head of state.
Information to remember:
⇒ Emmanuel Macron assures that he will appoint a Prime Minister “in the coming days”
⇒ A special finance law will be presented to the National Assembly before the end of the year
⇒ Several leaders of the Republicans and the Socialist Party will be received this Friday at the Élysée
09:10
The PS ready to negotiate with the Macronists and LR on the basis of “reciprocal concessions”
The First Secretary of the PS Olivier Faure said he was ready to discuss with the Macronists and the right on the basis of “reciprocal concessions” with a view to the formation of a new government which would have a “fixed-term contract”. Olivier Faure, who will be received Friday at 12 p.m. at the Elysée, said he was ready on franceinfo to make “compromises on all subjects”, including pensions, and hopes that Emmanuel Macron will appoint “a precursor” who would organize this negotiation between political forces before appointing a Prime Minister.
08:30
Anne Hidalgo denounces “a collective bankruptcy”
The overthrow of Michel Barnier’s government is “a collective bankruptcy”, judged Anne Hidalgo this Friday morning on France 2. The PS mayor of Paris, who specifies not targeting Matignon, calls for “getting out” of this situation and “putting ourselves around a table” to resolve the political situation.
08:05
Marine Tondelier ready to make concessions
Contrary to rebellious France, which repeats that it only wishes to apply the NFP program, Marine Tondelier said this morning that she was ready to make concessions. “Nothing but the program works when you have an absolute majority and a free hand,” said the general secretary of EELV on RMC this morning, according to whom “being loyal to our voters means not expecting to to have the luxury of having a completely free hand to do whatever we want. This means that we think that the solution must be found within the framework of the Republican front.
The ecologist nevertheless deplores being kept away from today’s consultations: “He has forged his own republican bow; and he does not have many arrows in his bow”, she criticized about the president.
07:30
Consultations coming this Friday
Several political figures will be received at the Élysée this Friday, the day after Emmanuel Macron’s speech. At midday, the leaders of the socialist groups in the National Assembly and the Senate, Boris Vallaud and Patrick Kanner, are expected there to meet the Head of State, as is the first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure. “We will go to the Élysée because we asked for it,” assured the latter on the social network on guard.
The leaders of the Republicans will also be invited by Emmanuel Macron later in the day. The latter will begin his consultations by receiving several executives from the forces of the Macronist camp (Renaissance, MoDem, Horizons, Radicaux, UDI).
07:10
Unions call for “responsibility” after Barnier government censorship
In a press release published Thursday evening, eight trade union organizations, including the CGT, Force Ouvrière and the CFDT, “call on the Head of State and all stakeholders to prioritize the general interest over their individual or short-term partisan interests. term”, in reaction to the fall of Michel Barnier’s government. “It must be time for responsibility,” they enjoin, while warning of the “social emergencies” of the moment. To find “concrete responses” to these, “the place and role of collective negotiation must be renewed, strengthened and respected”, they continue in this text.
07:05
“Censorship is not anti-Republican”, says Marine Le Pen
During his speech, Emmanuel Macron accused the National Rally and the forces of the New Popular Front of having come together in the form of an “anti-Republican front” to vote for censorship of Michel Barnier’s government. “A little reminder to President Macron, supposed to be the guarantor of the Constitution: censorship is not anti-Republican, it is provided for in the Constitution of our Fifth Republic,” replied the leader of the RN deputies in the Assembly national, Marine Le Pen.
Lucie Castets, put forward this summer by the NFP to gain access to Matignon, for her part said she was “shocked” by the formula of the Head of State, “when we remember how many Macronist deputies were elected, thanks to the Republican roadblock,” she said. For Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Emmanuel Macron is for his part “the cause of the problem” and “will go away due to the force of events”, he reacted on TF1, in the wake of the presidential speech.
07:00
Emmanuel Macron will call on his future Prime Minister to form “a government of general interest”
The President of the Republic assured Thursday during his speech his desire to bring together several political forces around a next Prime Minister. “I will charge him with forming a government of general interest representing all the political forces of an arc of government which can participate in it or, at the very least, which undertakes not to censor it,” he said. thus indicated. Excluding resigning, as demanded in particular by France Insoumise, Emmanuel Macron also announced the presentation of a special finance law to ensure “the continuity of public services and the life of the country”.
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