2024-12-03 06:24:00
“It is the head of state who appoints the prime minister, but I simply tell him to appoint a left-wing prime minister”, declares Olivier Faure
“We tried for two months to negotiate with the Prime Minister, but he only contacted Marine le Pen. She is the only one he entered into dialog with. In the end he didn’t succeed, but the truth is that he never tried to argue with us. He admitted that he was a prisoner of his common base, and therefore that he could not make the slightest gesture in our direction. Olivier Faure said this morning on BFMTV. The first secretary of the Socialist Party estimated this “The government has done everything from the beginning to never let itself be led by the left who could put forward its proposals, and I regret that.”
“All sectors will lose” in the event of a vote of censure, the Minister of Economy said this morning on France 2, underlining that“There are no Frenchmen who win, there are no companies that win”. “The country is facing a turning point”he further stated. Reacting to this, as well as equally early statements from the Budget Minister, olivier Faure declared that “thegovernment ministers play their part when they say it’s their fault or the chaos. But there is also a grain of truth in what they say because,when we freeze the income tax scale,we mechanically bring in,due to inflation,a certain number of tax families [380 000] in income tax.But if the left is called to power tomorrow, it will draw up a corrective financial bill in January.”
The first secretary of the PS also wants the nomination of Emmanuel Macron “a left-wing prime minister” but open “compromise” with the central bloc in parliament in the event of the overthrow of the Michel Barnier government in the coming days. “It is indeed the head of state who appoints the prime minister, but I simply tell him to appoint a left-wing prime minister: popular front in the government and republican front in the Assembly, so we can progress”he insisted.
Olivier Faure, who neither wants nor hopes for Emmanuel Macron’s resignation, “even if it is indeed true that he is responsible for all this”confirmed that the socialists will vote without hesitation for the censorship of the government with the National Rally. He also showed himself hostile to early presidential elections because “it is likely that Marine Le Pen will be very, very high in the first round and that she can win. Could the left want Marine Le Pen to be elected? NO. And then, even a newly elected president, with what majority woudl he govern the country? »