Left Promises to Censor New Prime Minister, Without “Political Legitimacy” | EUROtoday

On the morning of Thursday, September 5, the New Popular Front (NFP), clearly nonetheless harboring some hope, issued one more press launch urging Emmanuel Macron – after sixty days of ready and a litany of names being thrown round – to lastly appoint Lucie Castets, its candidate, to Matignon. “to get out of the impasse.” Yet one other exhortation that echoes, but once more, into the void.

A number of hours later, at noon, Michel Barnier, a member of the Les Républicains (LR) celebration, was appointed Prime Minister by Emmanuel Macron. New press releases instantly got here out, emanating from the headquarters of the assorted companions within the left-wing alliance. Unanimously, they promised to battle the brand new authorities.

Like its different NFP companions, the Socialist Party (PS) introduced in a press launch that it’s going to censure Michel Barnier, on the grounds that he “has neither political legitimacy nor republican legitimacy.” The first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure, deplores a “Democratic denial taken to its peak” with the appointment of“a prime minister from the party that came in fourth place and who did not even participate in the Republican front [contre le RN] ». “We are coming into a regime disaster”he concluded.

“A center finger to the French”

On YouTube, the founder of La France insoumise (LFI) Jean-Luc Mélenchon is just as definitive. “The election [législative] was stolen from the French. The message was denied”he protests, while the NFP came out on top, but without an absolute majority.

The same tone was echoed by the former deputy of the North and national secretary of the Communist Party (PC), Fabien Roussel. For him, the choice of the former right-wing European commissioner is “a center finger to the French who aspire to alter”. “It's an actual scandal,” Marine Tondelier, the leader of the environmentalists, protests in turn.

For François Hollande, traveling to the Châlons-en-Champagne fair, “there is almost certainty” that if Michel Barnier could have been designated by Mr. Macron, “It is as a result of the National Rally [RN] gave a type of discharge. The former President of the Republic believes that the brand new head of presidency must “to explain it” earlier than the Assembly.

As for Lucie Castets, she castigates, with Mediaparta major minister with “reactionary ideas”The senior civil servant refers particularly to the opposition of Michel Barnier, then a younger 30-year-old MP, to the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1981. A place instantly denounced, additionally, by Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

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