France’s populist leader Marine Le Pen has vowed that her National Rally party would immediately pass a vote of no confidence if President Emmanuel Macron tries to form a left-wing government.
After meeting with Macron at the Elysee Palace on Monday, National Rally (RN) leaders Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella said they would seek to topple any government involving the left-wing New Popular Front (NFP) coalition.
The far-left tried to force Macron to appoint Lucy Castets, a socialist economist and former deep state official, as the next prime minister, even though she has never been elected by the public to any office. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the far-left Insubordinate France (LFI), previously threatened to impeach Macron if he did not appoint Castets to head his next government.
In response to Mélenchon’s suggestion that he might leave the NFP in order to form a government, Le Pen said “nothing would change at all.”
“The very idea of a new Popular Front government coming into being without elected, non-partisans will not change anything,” Le Pen said. said Per Figaro After her meeting with President Macron, she said: “In any case, it is ‘a disobedient France’ and Mr. Mélenchon who are to blame.”
“We have indicated that we will probably support a motion of no confidence against the NFP government,” added Jordan Bardella, president of the National Coalition.
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The post-election stalemate saw Macron make a desperate last-minute alliance with the far-left in the second round to prevent Le Pen’s party from taking power by selectively withdrawing in constituencies depending on which candidate was more likely to win, leaving France without a real government for about a month and a half.
Prime Minister Gabriel Atal has led a caretaker government since the elections, with powers only to maintain the country’s day-to-day running and deal with emergencies, but no power to make new laws.
Ms Le Pen’s party won the most votes in last month’s election but was prevented from winning a majority by Mr Macron’s strategic voting tactics. said Monday: “All this summer the French could watch the cynics and hypocrites dancing. They held elections for each other and then attacked each other. We are in fact the only opposition to this one party, the only opposition to the chaos.”
Laurent Jacobelli, a spokesman for the National Rally, also accused Macron of “playing with fire” and “playing with the institutions of the Fifth Republic” by forming an “unnatural alliance” with the far-left to remove right-wing populist parties from power.
With no consensus emerging on who could become the next prime minister, Le Pen suggested the key decision could be voted for directly by the French people in a referendum.
“In the face of the impasse resulting from the election, there is a solution: to address the issues of major concern to citizens directly through a referendum,” she said, adding that her populist party is “clearly very much in favour of this”.
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