President Macron's choice to exclude the NFP from the government “creates a dangerous precedent” for the Nîmes left

Vincent Bouget (PCF) vent debout contre la décision du président Macron d’écarter le NFP dans le prochain gouvernement. Midi Libre – MIKAËL ANISSET

Midi Libre collected the reactions of representatives of the left in Nîmes after Emmanuel Macron's refusal to appoint a Prime Minister from the New Popular Front.

The fact of excluding the New Popular Front to form the next government has been particularly badly received by the left in Nîmes since Monday, August 27. “President Macron is twisting the institutions to the point of denying the lessons of the French vote in the legislative elections”, confides Vincent Bouget, first federal secretary of Gard for the French Communist Party.

The PCF municipal, community and departmental elected official of Nîmes regrets the refusal of the President of the Republic to appoint Lucie Castets, the candidate of the left, as Prime Minister: “She would have sought a majority, found agreements. We would have been in a parliamentary logic. Instead of restoring parliamentary life, we find a Jupiterian President of the Republic. This is a dangerous precedent, a coup de force." For him, this return to school risks heading straight for a political crisis "because the government wants to keep financial interests for the benefit of the powers of money."

Vincent Bouget is counting on a collective reaction. For his part, Nicolas Pelligrini (La France Insoumise) is calling for mobilization even if locally nothing has yet been decided. “In Nîmes, we are going to consult”, he says.

Towards a mobilization on September 7 ?

The Gard prefecture could well be the setting for a demonstration, like everywhere else in France, on Saturday, September 7. “What is happening is extremely dangerous because voters who were turning away from the ballot boxes were over-mobilized during the legislative elections. There was no carte blanche given to the President of the Republic but a democratic surge. People will turn away from the ballot boxes next time", says the Insoumis nîmois.

"President Macron is stepping out of the Republican axis by being the main opponent of the constitution", says Nicolas Pelligrini, particularly disappointed by the presidential choice to rule out any participation of the NFP in the next government. The Nîmes left is expecting a turbulent return to school.

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