The PS does not validate Huguette Bello’s candidacy for Matignon

Discussions are stalling on the left. The leaders of the New Popular Front, who were on their fifth day of negotiations on Friday, are no longer risking promising a name for Matignon by the end of the week. The timetable could even stretch to July 18, when the deputies will return to the Assembly to elect their president, indicated the coordinator of La France insoumise Manuel Bompard.

The Huguette Bello track. The communists are pushing the candidacy of the President of La Réunion, close to LFI, for the post of Prime Minister. The Socialists, for their part, are defending the candidacy of their First Secretary Olivier Faure.

Towards censorship? The leader of the RN, Marine Le Pen, warned that her party “will censor any government where LFI and environmentalists have ministerial responsibilities”. A threat also made by several leaders of the central bloc, starting with Gabriel Attal, who pledged on Friday to “protect the French from any government that includes ministers from the RN or LFI”, in his profession of faith for the presidency of the Renaissance group in the Assembly.

Renaissance changes its name? The only candidate in the election scheduled for this Saturday despite ambitions once attributed to Élisabeth Borne and Gérald Darmanin, Gabriel proposes renaming the group “Ensemble pour la République”, in a desire to make it “unavoidable” in order to generate “majorities of projects and ideas”.

Emmanuel Macron regrets the disunity in his camp. At a meeting of his leaders at the Élysée Palace on Friday, the head of state deplored the “disastrous spectacle” given by his camp in recent days. The president urged his troops to give priority to “the Nation rather than premature ambitions.”

Gérald Darmanin annoyed. In addition to the departure of a historic Macronist, Sacha Houlié, who will not sit in the Renaissance group, the Minister of the Interior also seems irritated by the turn of events. He stated that this election would not resolve either “the political line” or “the functioning of the party”. “Unity (like life as a couple) cannot be decreed: it is built every day”, he grumbled in a message to Renaissance deputies, calling for a “critical examination”.