New Prime Minister: “No new position”, LR Laurent Wauquiez deplores a “disappointing interview” with Emmanuel Macron

Right-wing leader Laurent Wauquiez deplored on Wednesday a "disappointing" interview with Emmanuel Macron as part of the new consultations to form a government, asking the head of state to appoint "finally a Prime Minister" without "procrastinating".

“No new position, no real structured project for the French, no vision of what a government program would be for the months to come”, the leader of the Republican Right deputies estimated before the press as he left the Elysée, accompanied by the other Republican leaders Bruno Retailleau and Annie Genevard.

“This interview unfortunately turned out to be disappointing”, he declared. “We told the President of the Republic that he must now assume his responsibilities and finally appoint a Prime Minister to resolve the crisis that he himself caused with the dissolution (of the National Assembly). The positions of each party are known and there is no longer any reason to procrastinate”, he insisted, without answering questions from the press.

“Priorities” that can bring people together according to Wauquiez

Laurent Wauquiez also asked Mr. Macron to “engage” on the proposals of the "legislative pact" put on the table by the right, which does not however want to participate in any government or coalition with the presidential camp.

According to him, these are "some priorities that can largely unite the French, whether it is the question of security, whether it is the question of the revaluation of work, whether it is the question of greater firmness on immigration, whether it is the question of the fight against the waste of public money, but with as a counterpart no increase in taxes and the protection of power 'purchase".

"We told the President of the Republic that we were open to collaborative work with the future government" on the basis of these "priorities", Annie Genevard added. “We will not be agents of blocking the country, the country needs to move forward and we want to be the actors”, she added, while warning that Les Républicains will not participate in a “half-goat half-cabbage policy or a policy of at the same time”.