Laurence Tubiana: Potential Prime Minister Candidate Sparks Controversy

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2024-07-15 20:27:00

His name has been circulating “for a while” with “the good will of the three parties”, a source indicates, confirming information from L’Opinion and Franceinfo.

The one who defines herself as “a woman of the left and an environmentalist” was sometimes mentioned during the negotiations of the Macronists to form previous governments, without continuing.

Laurence Tubiana has been chair of the European Climate Foundation (ECF) since 2017.

And she was notably an environmental consultant for Lionel Jospin from 1997 to 2002.

LFI rejects “external” candidacy from civil society for the post of Prime Minister

She recently co-signed a column in Le Monde urging the New Popular Front to “meet without delay with other activists on the Republican front to discuss a Republican emergency program and government”.

“Of course, on the part of the NFP, which will be the starting point of such negotiations, his program, but each of us knows, and admits in advance, that this is not the starting point in all areas”, said. this text.

His profile has already been criticized by the Insoumis who accuse him of being close to Emmanuel Macron.

LFI MP Paul Vannier therefore indicates that his movement does not intend to support “a compatible Macron profile” because “it would be an abandonment of the program”, “a betrayal of the promise made to millions of voters”. He also points out that Laurence Tubiana’s proposal has not been formally transmitted to the Insoumis at this stage.

LFI had, a little earlier, rejected the idea of ​​a civil society figure for the post of Prime Minister, announcing that discussions for Matignon would be suspended pending the sole candidacy of the New Popular Front for the election to the presidency of the National Assembly on Thursday .

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