French government resigns as left fails to reach agreement

PARIS, France.— This Tuesday, the French government resigned and will remain in office as long as the pleft-wing articles They keep trying agree on a common candidacy to the post of Prime Minister to offer an alternative.

The French President, Emmanuel Macronaccepted late in the afternoon the resignation of the government headed by the prime minister, Gabriel Attaland he asked to remain in office until a new government is formed, the Elysée Palace announced in a statement.

In order to close this period “as soon as possible, it is up to the republican forces to work together to build a meeting point around projects and actions in the service of the French people,” the note added.

The resignation presentation came at the last meeting Minister council of the legislature, which took place at noon at the Elysée Palace, although none of the participants made any statements upon leaving.

Some attendees indicated that the president proposed as an option for governability a possible alliance for this legislature of Macronism with the conservative right of the Republicans (LR).

The division on the left remains

However, the presentation of an alternative by the political left still seems far away, since the four parties that make up the New Popular Frontwhich achieved the highest number of deputies in the National Assembly In the recent legislative elections, they failed to agree on a candidate for Prime Minister to Macron.

The disagreement in the last 24 hours reached such a level of intensity that the national secretary of the Communist Party (PCF), Fabien Rousselwarned today: “If we do not find a solution in the next few days, it will be a real disaster.”

His statements came after the national coordinator of the leftist The Insoumise France (LFI,) Manuel Bompardrejected the proposal of Laurence Tubiana for the post of Prime Minister, which had been held by the other partners of the New Popular Front (NFP).

“It’s a proposal that I don’t consider serious,” Bompard told France 2, saying that Tubiana’s rise to the top of the government would mean “allowing the Macronists who have been ousted” in the legislative elections to come in through the window.

LFI announced yesterday that it was abandoning negotiations to agree on a common name from the left to present to the President of the Republic for appointment as Prime Minister.

Next, the Socialist Party (PS) responded that together with the other parties (the communist and the ecological) they would present a candidacy arising from civil societythat would allow us to overcome this blockage.

During the presidency of the socialist Francois Hollande (2012-2017) Tubiana was a special ambassador for the COP21 climate summitheld in the French capital, and which concluded in the Paris Agreements of 2015 to limit the impact of climate change and promote the energy transition.

Since the second round of elections on the 7th, the four parties of the NFP have not been able to agree on a name, as both LFI and PS, the two largest parties, are clinging to their respective candidates.

Agreement on the left for the National Assembly

However, understanding between the left-wing parties seemed to have improved after the socialist leader, Olivier Faureannounced late this afternoon that the four left-wing parties have reached an agreement for a single candidacy for the presidency of the National Assembly.

The lower house of the French parliament will be convened next Thursday and the NFP parties had set themselves the goal of at least securing a common name for its presidency.

“We have agreed on a single candidate for the presidency,” Faure said in a statement to the press at the headquarters of the parliamentary chamber.

However, Faure refused to give the name or affiliation of the candidate, as he considered that this is something that corresponds to the “presidents of the parliamentary groups” of the four parties, who are the ones who have negotiated this candidacy.

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