According to Jordan Bardella, the appointment of Gérald Darmanin, Éric Dupond-Moretti or Xavier Bertrand could lead to the censure of the government.
“The censorship will not only be that of the Prime Minister, but that of a government,” warned Jordan Bardella on the microphone of RTL this Monday morning. The MEP and president of the National Rally is clear: his party will vote for a censure of the government if certain names appear on the list of the new executive.
“If Michel Barnier is the successor to the policy that has been conducted by Emmanuel Macron for eight years […]then this government will fall.” And he added: “If the government consists of recycling Mr. Darmanin, Mr. Dupond-Moretti and the bigwigs of Macronie, going all the way to Mr. (Xavier) Bertrand, it is Macronism that is changing its shop window.” Jordan Bardella’s position thus seems unequivocal.
A short-lived government?
A line shared by the RN deputy of Yonne, Julien Odoul, on LCI: keeping Éric Dupond-Moretti, the resigning Minister of Justice, would be a “harmful” or even “monstrous” signal that would push him to vote for censure. The same goes for the mayor of Perpignan, Louis Aliot: he opposes the appointment of too many Republicans to the government, at the risk that “it becomes the LR State in a way in government”.
While Jordan Bardella and Marine Le Pen, leaders of the RN, had assured that they would not automatically censor the next government, these new red lines are once again restricting Michel Barnier, who must appoint the future executive by the end of the week. For Jordan Bardella, the government will not last “very long” anyway, he believes on RTL, given “the democratic anomaly we are in” since the legislative elections.