France Protests Against Macron’s “Coup d’Etat” in Parliament and Calls for His Dismissal
People attend a protest rally in Paris, France, 07 September 2024 as the French left parties called for rallies against President Macron’s politics. Protests are taking place across France over the appointment of Michel Barnier as the new French prime minister, after the election that resulted in a National Assembly without a majority and in which the left won the largest number of seats. The poster reads “Macron destitution”. Photo: (Protestas, Francia) EFE/EPA/YOAN VALAT
September 7, 2024 Hour: 2:32 pm
Thousands of demonstrators, convened by left-wing parties, unions and organisations, took to the streets in France on Saturday to protest the appointment as prime minister of the conservative Michel Barnier by the president, Emmanuel Macron.
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About 150 demonstrations were organized today throughout France, within a hard opposition action to which will be added that motion of censure and also a parliamentary procedure for the dismissal of Macron promoted by LFI but not by other left-wing parties.
The leader of the France Unbowed (LFI), Jean-Luc Mélenchon, was one of the political leaders present at the Paris parade, which began in the Place de la Bastille, where he noted that this will be “a battle and a struggle that will last for a long time.”
The New Popular Front (NFP) The French government, which was formed by the left-wing parties to run for the legislative elections that Macron called early on 30 June and obtained 193 deputies out of a total of 577 on 7 July, claimed that the president could form a government as he was the largest political bloc in the parliament.
Macron rejected the left’s candidates for premier, arguing that they would not survive a no-confidence vote in France’s deeply divided parliament, instead, he is relying in the right-wing not to torpedo Barnier, the EU’s former Brexit negotiator and a member of the conservative Republicans (LR) party.
The Republicans (LR), the traditional right-wing party, which retained 6% of the vote and 47 seats but has the implicit support of the outgoing presidential majority (166 deputies).
For his part, the ultra-right leader Jordan Bardella threatened today by saying that his party, the National Grouping (RN) of Marine Le Pen, is “the first party in France” in votes and deputies, and that means “Nothing can be done against us or without our approval or censure.”
In response to these words, the first secretary of the Socialist Party (PS), who has not joined the street protests against Barnier, who leads the LFI, accused on his X account Macron of having placed himself “under the tutelage” of the extreme right by appointing this prime minister.
Autor: ACJ
Fuente: EFE // RFI // France 24