Emmanuel Macron breaks the silence.
The Head of State is speaking for the first time this Wednesday, June 22 at 8 p.m. since the second round of legislative elections which deprived his camp of an absolute majority and precipitated the country into a political crisis.
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The President of the Republic will speak this evening at 8 p.m.
," announced the Elysee, at the end of a day when he completed his tour of the political forces to try to find a way out.
The Head of State will then be caught up in a series of international commitments, including the European Council from Thursday in Brussels, then the G7 and NATO summits.
Leaders roundtable
Emmanuel Macron received in the morning the national secretary of Europe Ecology-The Greens Julien Bayou, the deputy LFI Adrien Quatennens and his former prime minister Édouard Philippe, boss of the Horizons party.
Tuesday he received Christian Jacob (LR), Olivier Faure (PS), François Bayrou (MoDem) and Marine Le Pen (RN).
Édouard Philippe called again on Wednesday for the creation of a "
grand coalition
" to give "
a stable direction
" to the country.
Invited on Tuesday, the communist Fabien Roussel affirmed that Emmanuel Macron was considering, among other scenarios, the constitution of a "
government of national unity
".
A track that the Head of State also mentioned to Marine Le Pen who estimated on Wednesday that "
the situation does not justify
» a government of national unity.
But not in front of Olivier Faure and Christian Jacob, they assured.
"
We are not candidates for any arrangement, for any
scheme", insisted for his part Adrien Quatennens at the end of his interview.
At Les Républicains, “
we will never be in the blocking of institutions
”, repeats the president of the party Christian Jacob, but, with their sixty deputies, they do not want to enter “
in a logic of coalition pact
”.
A government “
with the National Front, with people on the extreme left who say that the police kill?
Surely not !
“, insists the LR Michel Barnier.
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According to the Minister for Relations with Parliament Olivier Véran, the avenues are multiple: “
an enlargement
” of the majority, “
the continuation of the overcoming of the center left / center right
” or “
a system of majority project by project, sometimes with the left, sometimes with the right
.
He also ruled out that the RN and LFI could integrate any majority, because they are not "
in the republican arc
".
