DIRECT. The new prime minister: Laurent Wauquiez considers the interview with Emmanuel Macron “disappointing”

Laurent Wauquiez considers interview with Emmanuel Macron “disappointing”

Received alongside several LR tenors at the Elysée, the leader of the right-wing Republican parliamentary group Laurent Wauquiez said that the interview with the head of state proved disappointing.

“This interview turned out to be, unfortunately, disappointing,” said the president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, adding that the head of state had not demonstrated any “new position” as well as “any real structured project for the French.” nor “the vision of what would be a government program for the months to come.”

“I told the President of the Republic that he must now take his responsibilities and finally appoint a prime minister to come out of the crisis he himself caused with the dissolution,” he added, concluding: “The positions they are all known, and now there is no reason to delay.”

Several LR officials received at the Elysée

Emmanuel Macron receives several tenors of the LR at the Elysée: the president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region Laurent Wauquiez, the president of the LR group in the Senate Bruno Retailleau and the secretary general of the Republicans Anne Genevard. The three elected met the head of state for the first time last Friday at the Elysée. Laurent Wauquiez refuses any coalition. The LR group has 47 deputies after the dissolution.

Emmanuel Macron will receive Carole Delga

As part of his consultations to appoint a prime minister, Emmanuel Macron will receive several regional elected officials, it indicates Information about France : Carole Delga the PS president of the Occitanie region, the Renaissance president of the Paca region Renaud Muselier and the LR mayor of Cannes David Lisnard. The meeting is set for Thursday morning at 8:45.

LFI François Ruffin calls “to end the arrogance of Emmanuel Macron”

Elected LFI of the Somme François Ruffin estimates in an interview with Release this morning that Emmanuel Macron “continues in denial, as if he has not suffered a defeat, as if he is in control. Once again, he thinks he's winning, like a miserable Machiavelli, but he also makes the country lose democracy. . François Ruffin, who joined the environmental group in the National Assembly, calls for “an end to the arrogance of Emmanuel Macron”.

Marine Tondelier (EELV): “Lucie Castets is credible”

Greens National Secretary Marine Tondelier defended Lucie Castets' choice of Matignon once again at the LCI this morning. “We have no better solution than Lucie Castets.” Bernard Cazeneuve's option? Marine Tondelier is against it. “He embodies a part of a New Popular Front party” that is “even narrower” than the New Popular Front.

François Bayrou (Modem): “No one won this election, everyone lost”

Modem leader François Bayrou, an ally of Emmanuel Macron, returned to the results of the legislative elections that followed the dissolution. “No one won this election, everyone lost it,” he told RMC and BFMTV. He believes that the Republican Front is the winner of the election.

The LFI will submit a request for the dismissal of Emmanuel Macron in the coming days

LFI coordinator Manuel Bompart confirmed on Europe 1 and CNews that the LFI will file a motion to impeach Emmanuel Macron in the coming days under Article 68 of the French Constitution. He reiterated that Insousmi would file a no-confidence motion against any government that was not led by Lucie Castets. Manuel Bompart denounces “a democratic coup by Emmanuel Macron”.

Mathilde Panot, LFI: “They don't want to let us govern”

Rebel-elect Mathilde Panot hit back at RTL this morning at Emmanuel Macron's choice not to appoint Lucie Castets to Matignon. “They are pulling their weight with the no-confidence motion, but the reality is that they don't want to let us govern because the politics we want to do is ultra-majoritarian in this country,” said Mathilde Panot. Asked if the Lucie Castets option has ended, Mathilde Panot replied “no”.

Rachida Dati denounces the “coup d'état of the left”

The resigned Minister of Culture Rachida Dati denounced the “coup d'état” at the microphone of France Inter this morning. The left is “largely a minority, intellectually and electorally,” said Rachida Dati. While LR tenors see Emmanuel Macron again today, Rachida Dati supports an alliance between Macronie and LR: “It is the way of responsibility”, she believes.

François Hollande: “It's an institutional mistake”

Former President of the Republic, now again deputy for Corrèze, François Hollande, described the refusal to appoint Lucie Castets as prime minister as an “institutional fault” on the part of Emmanuel Macron in an interview published by The point . For him, “it was not up to the President of the Republic to censure Lucie Castets himself. This responsibility rests with the National Assembly after the deputies were able to listen to the general policy statement and the composition of the government and express their choice,” says the former socialist president.

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Why Emmanuel Macron must make his choice quickly

For the moment, the solution to the political puzzle does not seem to be in sight. And the president doesn't have much time left to solve it. A budget must actually be presented on October 1 to the Assembly. And in the shorter term, his schedule is already full: he has to open the Paralympics in Paris on Wednesday night and leave on Thursday afternoon for a visit to Serbia.

The Greens ask the French to mobilize on September 7

After the LFI, the Greens, in turn, are calling on the French to mobilize against “Macron's coup” on Saturday, September 7. “Emmanuel Macron is looking for all the excuses in the world,” Greens national secretary Marine Tondelier told BFMTV. “When Emmanuel Macron talks to us about stability, he doesn't care about the world,” says chief environmentalist Marine Tondelier.

Emmanuel Macron continues his consultations this Wednesday and receives the elected LR

A delegation of the Republicans (LR) is to be received on Wednesday, including Laurent Wauquiez. The latter has so far ruled out any participation in a coalition, but has nevertheless suggested that, under certain conditions, his group may not vote against the budget, notes a person close to the president. The full list of the president's interlocutors, however, remains unknown. At noon on Tuesday, Emmanuel Macron had lunch with François Bayrou, his ally, the Modem president. “The work continues, the door is open and I welcome all those who want to come and continue to work for the interest of the country,” commented the head of state in a short statement on the steps of Elysium.

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