Fierce reactions in France's left bloc have been caused by the appointment of conservative Michel Barnier to the office of prime minister, bypassing the fresh popular mandate that gave victory to the New Popular Front coalition.
Left-wing leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon immediately opposed Barnier's appointment and predicted the new prime minister would not receive majority support in the divided National Assembly. "The elections have been stolen," argued the head of the Insubordinate France party.
"The message has been denied," Mélenchon emphasizes about the elections, according to which the new prime minister "conveys the message of the refusal of the French people."
The president of Central Committee of Insubordinate France in the National Assembly, Mathilde Panot, denounced an "unacceptable coup d'état in democracy": "By appointing Michel Barnier, the President refuses to respect popular sovereignty and the choice that comes from the ballot box."
The head of the Socialists, Olivier Faure, emphasizes for his part that France is entering an "establishment crisis". "Democratic denial has reached its peak: a Prime Minister from the party that came in 4th place and who did not even participate in the Republican front," he wrote on the platform X. Earlier, the president of the socialist party had recalled that "in all democracies of the world", "it is the coalition that comes first that is called to form a government. Never the party that lost the elections."
In the Ecologist party, Marine Tondelier considers the political crisis of the last few weeks, supposedly ended with the appointment of Michel Barnier, to be "deplorable on a democratic level".
The French Communist Party, through its general secretary, Fabien Roussel, condemns "the choice of a right-wing union". "By appointing Michel Barnier, former minister of Nicolas Sarkozy and European commissioner supporter of neoliberal doctrines, the President of the Republic is choosing to continue the policies that have been implemented for seven years," he said in a statement.
Furthermore, he notes that this choice was made to avoid a direct motion of censure in the National Assembly with "the complicity of the National Rally" and points out that his party intends "to use all the means at its disposal to fight a policy that turns its back to the interests of France, beginning with the censorship of the government.'
Far-right Le Pen, on the other hand, showed she was willing to give Barnier a chance, but said that the National Rally party would not take part in his government because the new prime minister "does not share our ideas".
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