For Raphaël Glucksmann, Bayrou should make “important concessions” to the left | EUROtoday

Lon the left raises the stakes. MEP Raphaël Glucksmann believes that Prime Minister François Bayrou should make “important concessions” to the left, in a each day interview West France printed Saturday.

“The presidential camp must be ready to make significant concessions on pensions, purchasing power, tax justice… Otherwise, it is not a compromise, it is a surrender,” says the pinnacle of Place publique who led the checklist of socialists within the European elections, arriving on the head of the left.

Regretting that the president didn’t flip to “a personality from the left” for Matignon, with the intention to mark “taking into account his successive electoral setbacks”, Raphaël Glucksmann assures that “we must negotiate a non- censorship with François Bayrou” because the left does not want “chaos”. “But for it to work, major fundamental changes are needed,” he adds.

“Advance towards the positions of the left”

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He describes as a “serious mistake” the temptation to “once again offer Marine Le Pen the power to bring down, or not, the government by giving a thumbs up or down to the National Assembly”. “And, for this, there are not forty paths: this presupposes a non-censorship agreement between the presidential camp and the socialists, the ecologists as well as the communists,” he explains, ordering François Bayrou to “advance towards the positions of the left” and “really negotiate with it”.

Appointed to Matignon eight days in the past, François Bayrou should appoint a authorities “before Christmas”. The Socialist Party, which had stated it was prepared for compromise, regretted on Thursday that it had “not found the reasons not to censor” the brand new Prime Minister. Its chief, Olivier Faure, stated he was “dismayed by the poverty of what (was) proposed”.