The LFI lit the fuse on Saturday night with a text stating the “institutional blow against democracy” attributed to Emmanuel Macron, guilty of not “taking into account the political outcome” of the early legislative elections that put the united left in the lead (193 MPs ). ), however far from the absolute majority (289 deputies). But the PS blew up at noon on Sunday.
The proposal to launch an impeachment of Emmanuel Macron “refers only to their movement” and not to the entire left united within the New Popular Front, Olivier Faure wrote on Sunday to the Tribune by Insoumis leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon, LFI coordinator Manuel Bompard. and the head of deputies Mathilde Panot.
And the PS chief added: “the answer to an appointment of a (prime minister) who would not complyFor the Republican tradition, it is censorship.”
“It's not the priority”
In this process, the other left-wing partners made known their skepticism towards the approach launched by the LFI. Pulling a tactical divergence, while everyone is looking to increase the pressure on Emmanuel Macron, who is delaying to appoint a new government and put aside the hypothesis of the appointment of the representative of the NFP, Lucie Castets, to Matignon.
“The stubbornness of Emmanuel Macron who continues to maintain that he will not change course is worrying. Everyone reacts to it in their own way,” emphasized the head of Ecologists Marine Tondelier. “As far as environmentalists are concerned, we are devoting all our energy to ensuring that Lucie Castets is appointed as soon as possible,” she added. At the same distance from the Communist Party, where we observe that “LFI chooses to launch immediately into the presidential elections. It's their choice.”
“For us it is not the priority. Before considering a new presidential election, let's respect the result of the legislative elections”, argues the PCF, who will be received by Emmanuel Macron, together with his allies from the NFP, Castets, and the other political forces, next Friday at the Elysée.
“Dog”
Even though Insoumi had stated that they wanted to see their approach carried out on “as collective a basis as possible”, several voices on the left criticized its “solitary” character. “Or how to serve the President with a constitutionally and politically impractical threat that legitimately divides the left (again presented with a fait accompli),” lamented PS deputy Jérôme Guedj, regarding it as “pure Mélenchon”.
“Whatever the disagreements with the President of the Republic, the branding of the threat of dismissal leads only to the brutalization of political relations, making impossible any form of exchange in a period that nevertheless demands it and dividing the left,” added the former Macronist Minister of Health Aurélien. Rousseau, now deputy within the NFP.
By lifting the barricade, the LFI partners annihilate an already complex procedure to complete: it involves convincing the Assembly and the Senate to constitute the “High Court”, before voting for the dismissal as such, each time by a two-thirds majority.
The episode also opens a breach in an alliance that has rocked and even toppled regularly for two years. Much to the delight of the Macronists, who still hope to disable the social democrats in order to try to form a broad coalition.