New Prime Minister: In Valence, Lucie Castets refuses to play without Insoumis

He has the hospitality of Jean-Luc Mélenchon when he wants it. Yesterday he greeted Lucie Castets with a golden offer at the LFI summer days in Valence. In an intervention in the newspaper at 13:00, he “addressed the leaders of the three Macronist parties and the right: the government of Lucie Castets, if no rebel ministers were included, you would commit not to vote for him and not to allow him to implement the program that we came first in the legislative elections ? “. “If you give us the answer ‘no’, we will say that, rebel ministers, in fact, this is an excuse, a program that you don’t want.”

Govt without LFI

A way to sidestep or bluff to prevent the left from coming to power? Around 1:30 p.m., on the lawn where the Insoumis activists are discussing, Eric Cockerel comes to meet the journalists to give a new information: “This is not a proposal, but a question to the President of the Republic. This is a way. don’t put it against the wall,” he explains, making no mistake. But Olivier Faure didn’t wait to tweet: “@JLMelenchon paves the way for @CastetsLucie Gvt without the presence of @FranceInsoumise. The excuse for having LFI ministers no longer exists. Now we are waiting for the answer to all these. Who thinks they’ve found a way to completely reject #NFP.

Since Thursday, left-wing parties have stepped up initiatives aimed at developing Varennes Street. In the summer days of environmentalists, he was best received in Tours. The rebels were asked to praise him: “His career, interference in public services and salaries convinced us. Besides, he wants to act quickly and forcefully, he wants to rule by decree and all political forces. Then Macron talked so much about the technoprofile, which is a way of telling him that we have such a profile.” Hadrien Clouet, deputy for Haute-Garonne. On Thursday, Jean-Luc Mélenchon himself assured: “He is not Insoumise, but he deserves it.”

There is no question of retreating

Sacrificing himself from there to allow Gabriel Attal to take up residence in his office? When you ask activists a question, the first impulse is to say: there is no word. This is the situation of Daisy, Patricia, Dorothée, Paola and Antoine from the northern regions of Marseille: “I contributed to the general program, thanks to the LFI we withdrew. The RN is in power and we would agree not to participate in the government?”, Patricia is angry. “We are still the NFP “We’re the most important movement of,” Antoine laments. “Well, if it’s only one year, fine,” said Dorothée.

But activists are worried for nothing. Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s question was only rhetorical. Lucie Castets confirms this during her afternoon intervention: “Yesterday we reminded the President of the Republic that the New People’s Front is not sold piecemeal. The four parties presented themselves as united and will remain so,” she assures. a candidate for a room that claps and shouts bravo. Jean-Luc Melenchon, sitting in the front row, is enjoying himself.