The threat to impeach Emmanuel Macron, held by insoumi on Sunday, was rejected by the PS, whose head Olivier Faure said the initiative involved “only their movement”.
The head of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, ruled out the hypothesis of support from the PS for a procedure to impeach Emmanuel Macron, threat brandished by La France insoumisebelieving on Sunday that he favors “censorship” if the president refuses to appoint a left-wing prime minister.
This new disagreement between the two main components of the New Popular Front, which continues to claim Matignoncancel any chance of seeing this complex procedure reach Parliament.
In a column published in the weekly Sunday at the TribuneThe rebels had actually threatened the President of the Republic to take this step if he “overlooked” the results of the polls. But this forum “only refers to their movement” and not the entire New Popular Front, Olivier Faure wrote on , is censorship,” he added.
This column is signed by LFI leaders only. It only involves their movement. The answer to the appointment of a prime minister who does not conform to the republican tradition is censure. https://t.co/1hq3x4K9kR
— Olivier Faure (@faureolivier) August 18, 2024
“Institutional Coup”
The rebel leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the head of the LFI deputies Mathilde Panot and the coordinator of the movement Manuel Bompard justified their initiative by denouncing an “institutional coup against democracy” attributed to Emmanuel Macron, on the spot, according to them “to appoint a head of government without regard to the political outcome” of the early legislative elections.
Even if it had been supported by the entire NFP, this “solemn warning” of the Rebels would have been complex to implement: an impeachment procedure actually involves convincing the Assembly and the Senate to constitute themselves as a “High Court”. This requires, in particular, a two-thirds majority in each hemicycle, then during the vote of all MPs.
Other PS members dissociated themselves from the LFI proposal, such as Olivier Faure's internal opponent, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol. “Discussed? Not. Approved. Not. This forum – neither do nor do – only hires its authors,” wrote the mayor of Rouen.
Discussed? Not.
Approved? Not.
PFN employment? Not.
This forum – neither do nor do – is the sole responsibility of its authors. https://t.co/9gusAybXTp— Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol (@NicolasMayerNMR) August 18, 2024
“Monthly!”
“The removal of the President for not respecting the will of Mélenchon? Monthly! The LFI continues to pull the left towards extremism and leaves the republican field,” reacted, for his part, the resigned Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti.
Are you impeaching the president for disobeying Mélenchon's will? Monthly!
LFI is still pulling the left towards extremism and leaving the republican field.
To be a guarantor of the vote of the millions of French who stood in the way is to respect the spirit of the institutions!
— Eric Dupond-Moretti (@E_DupondM) August 18, 2024
Ahead of the second round of the anticipated legislative elections but far from an absolute majority in the Assembly, the left-wing coalition of the NFP claims Matignon and would like to install the high-ranking civil servant Lucie Castets there. The latter must accompany a delegation of the NFP to the Elysée on Friday during a day of consultations organized by Emmanuel Macron with all the leaders of the political forces in the Parliament.
Questioned on Sunday by La Tribune, the head of the Ecologists Marine Tondelier had, for her part, avoided the topic: “I don't dare to imagine that Emmanuel Macron will not appoint Lucie Castets”, she brushed it aside.