Mélenchon suspends talks to agree on prime ministerial candidate in France
Leftist parties Rebellious France (LFI) announced this on Monday Postponement of discussions with remaining Left parties Agreement on a single candidate for prime minister from the New Popular Front (NFP) coalition, which was the leading force in the National Assembly in the recent elections.
“For the time being, we will not participate in any further debate on the formation of a government,” said the group founded by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who accuses the French Socialist Party – a member of the NFP – of colluding with environmentalists and communists. “Political blockade.”
He also warned that this “impasse” created by the Socialists will not be solved by the “reform of external candidacy”, as proposed by the Socialist leadership this Monday.
“The President of the Republic continues to refuse to recognize the result”
“One week after the second round of legislative elections, the President of the Republic is refusing to recognize the results. Now.” The president wants to hijack the election “To erase the coalition victorious in the elections to the National Assembly on July 18. He also hopes to be able to count on a tacit agreement with the RN for this, as was the case in 2022. This maneuver must be thwarted urgently in order to form a new Popular Front government and implement program measures faithful to the aspirations expressed by the French people,” La Francia Insumisa said in the statement.
The left-wing formation is also reflected in the statement whether “the Socialist Party is buying time to break up the New Popular Front and abandon the program with which it was elected.”
“This political blockade will not be solved by reforming “outsider” candidacy”. Because, what guarantees would be given for the implementation of the New Popular Front program? This would be equivalent to extending the veto of the Socialist Party to all the candidacies of all the components of the New Popular Front. We ourselves proposed four names: why do you reject them all before they are asked for? “Agree immediately on a single candidacy.”
The final Council of Ministers of the Macron Government
Meanwhile, in the absence of a candidate, the Macronist government led by Gabriel Attal will contest the prime ministership Last Council of Ministers A date which is taken as the deadline for ministers to resign from their positions, before the new National Assembly is constituted.
The weekly meeting will be held, as usual, at 11:30 a.m. at the Elysee and It will be chaired by French President Emmanuel Macron.
According to the French press, Macron plans to accept the resignation of the Attal-led government, so that members of the executive who have been elected in their respective constituencies to occupy a seat in the new lower house can assume their parliamentary positions.