“In a campaign, we try to convince voters by making it argument once morest argument. “Which act. Guest of Sud Radio’s “Political Breakfast” on Monday morning, Manuel Bompard took the opportunity to respond to the Head of State who, on Friday, in an interview with the regional daily press, had explained that “no political party [pouvait] impose a name [de Premier ministre] to the President”. Clearly, he would not appoint Matignon Jean-Luc Mélenchon, boss of LFI which leads the left-wing Nupes alliance to the legislative elections, in the event of victory for the latter at the end of the second round, on June 19.
Constitutional obligation versus republican tradition
For Manuel Bompard, former campaign manager of the rebellious leader and legislative candidate in the 4th district of Marseille, “the arguments defended by the President of the Republic do not hold water”. Thus, “when he says:” Jean-Luc Mélenchon cannot be Prime Minister, because I will not name him “, well, yes, man, you are going to name him”, he let go. In his eyes, “what is a constitutional obligation is that the Prime Minister must have a vote of confidence in the National Assembly and, in order to have it, the person who has been chosen by the political alliance which has the majority of deputies in the Assembly. »
But if that were the case, Emmanuel Macron might very well decide to appoint someone else within the Nupes, launched the journalist Benjamin Glaise to him… “It would be a provocation”, estimated Manuel Bompard, advancing “the historical traditions”: “When François Mitterrand appoints Jacques Chirac [en 1986]he appoints the Leader of the Opposition [RPR]. Jacques Chirac himself named Lionel Jospin in 1997, he did so because Lionel Jospin was appointed by the plural left at the time. »
But how to say that we have won an election when we are not a candidate, then slipped Benjamin Glaise, recalling that Jean-Luc Mélenchon, deputy for Bouches-du-Rhône, did not represent himself for a new mandate. “At no time in history is there an obligation to be a deputy to be Prime Minister”, decided Manuel Bompard, citing the case of Elisabeth Borne, who had just been appointed Prime Minister and who present for the very first time by universal suffrage in Calvados. Argument once morest argument.