French Prime Minister Elizabeth Bourne on Tuesday handed over her resignation letter to Emmanuel Macron, who immediately rejected it “before the government can take action”, before risking blocking his reforms in the party leaders’ assembly.
“The prime minister has submitted his resignation letter to the president of the republic, who rejected it so that the government can work and work these days,” Elysee Palace told AFP in a statement.
In the process, Elizabeth Bourne’s team announced to AFP that she would unite the entire government in Matigan in the early afternoon. Expected ministers include Rui de Varene, Amelie de Montchalin (Ecological Transition), Brigitte Bourguignon (Health) and Justin Benin (Sea), all of whom lost in the second round on Sunday and will have to resign.
It is traditional that the head of government proposes his resignation after the legislative election. But after the disappointing results in Sunday’s legislative election, Elizabeth Bourne was in an ejection seat where Macroni lost an absolute majority.
Macron is advancing
“The prime minister asked the French to stay in place to deal with the situation and the state of emergency,” he said. There are many decrees to be taken in the days ahead, including the revaluation of the index points, the second phase of the parcoursup … We cannot have a government that does not manage it.
But a sign that this is actually the head of state who will be in charge, Elysee recalled in his press release that he would “take the party leaders in the National Assembly and conduct the necessary political consultations. To identify possible constructive solutions in the service of the French.”
Faced with the risk of a stalemate in the assembly and the ghosts of an unmanageable country, the leaders of the six parties will continue to be greeted at the Elysee: Christian Jacob (LR) showed the way to arrive just before 10am. He will be followed by Olivier Fouar (PS) at 11am, Franোয়াois Berou (modem) at 2pm, Stanislas Guerini (LREM) at 3pm, Marine Le Pen (RN) at 5.30pm and Fabian Russell (PCF) at 6.30pm. , As EELV party leader Julien Beu on Wednesday before others.
Melenchan will not move
In LFI, Jean-Luc Mélenchon will not be heard. Number two Adrian Quatenens and Deputy Mathilde Panot will meet with the head of state.
Olivia Fauer has let it be known that she will tell the president that “this country is going badly, angry, but it is not blocked and there are possible policies.”
Adrian Quatenens would “advise a Constituent Assembly to move Emmanuel Macron to the Sixth Republic” in light of the “deep political crisis” where France is now finding itself.
LFI and RN Bourne want to leave
Elizabeth Bourne, briefly re-elected on Sunday in Calvados, who will not attend interviews with political parties, was weakened by the electoral slap received on Sunday.
Adrian Quatence and other LFI officials have demanded the resignation of the head of government appointed on May 16. Jordan Bardella, acting president of the RN, also felt he had to “give up his apron.”
Mathilde Panot has already announced a “condemnation motion” against the government, believing that, as in the past five years, “Parliament will not be made up of Plemobil alone.”
As LFI deputies arrived in groups at the assembly on Tuesday morning, EELV’s environmentalists and PS’s MPs must do the same during the day.
With 245 deputies, the Macronists together! They are set in 289 seats out of 577, far from an absolute majority. They are ahead of Nupes, who will have at least 150 delegates on the hemisphere, according to an updated count conducted by AFP, which includes foreign delegates, but without predicting the likes of socialist dissidents and several elected officials on the left.
Emmanuel Macron (right) and Elizabeth were born on June 18, 2022, in Mont Valerian, near Paris. (File photo)
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Then comes the National Assembly, which achieved a historic success (89 seats), followed by the Republicans (61).
If no one in Macroni publicly questions the head of government – and therefore the majority -, many LR political leaders, including their presidential candidate Valerie Pecresi, have called on Emanuel Macron to “consider the outcome of this election.” Changes to “political line, prime minister and government”.
How do you imagine an agreement between the right-wing party and La Republican en March and its allies? “We are here and we will be in opposition: there will be no agreement or alliance with Emanuel Macron,” Republican boss Christian Jacob reiterated on Monday in an attempt to exercise authority over his party, which has been divided over the question. , Like Jean-François Copé.
A political bureau of the LR must meet by the end of Tuesday afternoon.
Meanwhile, Knops had failed for the first time: by proposing to form a single parliamentary group to appear as the first opposition to Emanuel Macron, Jean-Luc Melenchon received a dry dismissal from his partners.
Even if the second force at the Palais Bourbon returns to the national assembly. Marine Le Pen warns of her determination to “make it effective to block all reforms (…) that are harmful to retirement first and foremost at the age of 65”.