► Mélenchon warns the NFP about the cost of a breakup
The leader of La France insoumise Jean-Luc Mélenchon on Tuesday warned his left-wing partners, who are due to meet during the day at the Élysée with representatives of the right and the center, against the political cost of a rupture of the New Popular Front.
“If the NFP is destroyed by our partners rallying behind Macron, we know that it will cost us”warned the leader of LFI in front of several media. “But on the other hand, who thinks they can win a single seat without us? »he warned.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon also estimated that in the event of a presidential election, an alliance between LFI and the PS would be impossible, but did not close the door to an agreement with other left-wing parties, notably the Ecologists. .
► Meeting at the Élysée: “Feasts to share positions,” denounces Le Pen
Marine Le Pen castigated “gapes to share positions” in the meeting of political forces Tuesday afternoon at the Élysée in which the National Rally and France Insoumise do not participate.
“Emmanuel Macron invited all the parties that could potentially participate in a government, he is in a way giving us the opposition medal”declared the leader of the RN deputies in the corridors of the National Assembly.
Recalling that the RN did not intend to participate in the government, she denounced “a form of contempt” of the head of state, calling for a prime minister “which respects all political forces” and take into account “red lines” of those “who weigh” in the National Assembly.
► Macron invites all parties to the Élysée except LFI and the RN
Here we go again for a round on Tuesday at the Élysée, where Emmanuel Macron invited the executives of the political forces, excluding RN and LFI, to try to clear the way allowing him to appoint a prime minister, and above all to avoid censorship .
After a series of camp-by-camp meetings, the head of state invites the party leaders and presidents of parliamentary groups from most of the country’s political forces to the same room in the presidential palace at 2 p.m.
What to expect from this meeting which will be held seven days after the censorship of Michel Barnier? Emmanuel Macron’s entourage says they hope “advance agreement on a method” for the appointment of a new head of government, and even pass the buck to the political forces.
► A council of ministers for the “special law” on the budget
A project of “special law” on the budget, allowing the State to raise taxes from January 1, will be presented to the Council of Ministers on Wednesday, the Élysée indicated.
This “temporary law” had been announced by Emmanuel Macron in his televised speech after the censorship of Michel Barnier’s government, in order to ensure “the continuity of public services and the life of the country”.
► Reluctant environmentalists, “no concessions” for Mélenchon
No question of participating “to a government of general interest with LR or Macronists or I don’t know who”assured the boss of the Ecologists Marine Tondelier, while the mere participation in this meeting at the Élysée divides the left.
The socialists, ecologists and communists, members of the New Popular Front, will be there. But the Insoumis, who had already declined an invitation to the Élysée, were not invited and blame their allies for going to negotiate.
“We are going to have an extremely pleasant exchange at breakfast”quipped the boss of the communist deputies André Chassaigne, who is due to meet his NFP counterparts on Tuesday morning.
“No concessions, we are not mandated to do that”summarized Jean-Luc Mélenchon at a meeting Monday evening in Brittany, predicting that these negotiations will not succeed.
► The PS pleads for a “republican dialogue”
Divergence of views: in a letter sent Monday evening to Emmanuel Macron, the PS executives express their “conviction that only republican dialogue and the confrontation of points of view can make it possible to find a way out of this blocked situation which is harmful to French people”.
However, by posing three conditions: no participation in a government led by the right or so-called « technique » : “a real change of political course” on topics like “pensions, purchasing power, tax justice”…and that a left-wing prime minister be appointed.
One last hypothesis already judged “not credible” by the leader of the Republican Right deputies Laurent Wauquiez, who assured his troops that Tuesday’s meeting could only be an opportunity to talk about “the method for obtaining non-censorship” et “in no case (of) participation in a government or on a program”.