The announcement of the new prime minister in France will be delayed as the name will be known on Friday morning and not on Thursday evening, as the Elysee Palace had initially promised.
President Emmanuel Macron said two days ago that he wants to name the new head of government within the next 48 hours.
The new government will replace that of Michel Barnier, who was voted out last week by parliament, plunging France into its second major political crisis in six months.
All Popular Front representatives who attended the meeting called on Macron to appoint "a leftist prime minister in France, open to compromise"
It seems that the meeting that Macron had with opposition parties - with the exception of Jean-Luc Mélenchon's Insubordinate France and Le Pen's National Alarm - with the aim of "forming a government of general interest or making it possible" was also fruitless.
Exchange offer
The head of the Socialists, Olivier Faure, described the discussion as "interesting" but "inconclusive" afterwards.
The only realistic proposal that seems to have been made is an agreement not to table a motion of censure against the next government.
All Popular Front representatives who attended the meeting called on Macron to appoint "a leftist prime minister, open to compromise". Only then would they consider joining the government – but that doesn't seem likely.
But because Socialists, Environmentalists and Communists do not want to give their voters the impression of agitators, they proposed to Macron "an exchange of goodwill gestures: the future government should renounce the use of 49.3 [the article of the Constitution that allows it to bypass the National Assembly] in exchange for the opposition to drop a motion of censure."
The ball is in Macron's court
"The ball is now in the president's court," summed up the leader of the Socialists. “I leave without being able to tell you that the presidential camp has moved even a little bit. I'm sorry for the French who are watching us," said for her part, clearly more ominously, the head of the Environmentalists, Marine Todellier.
"I hope an agreement can be reached to at least avoid the fall of a government. But we don't think we can discuss a government contract with people who don't share the same vision of what should be done for France," commented in turn the head of the Republican parliamentary group of the French Right, Laurent Vauquier - the his party has already made it clear that it will only vote on a future motion of censure if the government includes members of France Insubordinate and adopts the left's program alliance, of the New People's Front.
Source: in.gr
