Stop the infighting and pull yourselves together, Marine Tondelier, leader of France’s Green Party, urged left-wing party leaders on Wednesday (17), as negotiations within the bloc over a common prime ministerial candidate appeared to have reached a dead end.
“I am angry, I am disgusted, I am fed up and I regret the spectacle we are giving the French,” Tondelier told France 2 television. The French leader added that she felt too embarrassed to look voters in the eye while her political rivals watched the left’s failure “with popcorn”.
After their surprise victory in the July 7 elections, leaders of the leftist New Popular Front alliance were quick to say they would form a government and appoint a prime minister within days.
Since then, no progress has been made and the left has shifted its focus to trying to reach an agreement on a candidate for president of the new national assembly, which will meet for the first time on Thursday (18).
“Our hope has turned to anger, our joy has turned to shame,” Tondelier said, adding that the political dispute was mainly due to differences between the bloc’s two biggest parties, the moderate Socialists and the far-left France Insoumise (LFI).
Meanwhile, President Emmanuel Macron has asked soon-to-be-outgoing Prime Minister Gabriel Attal to broker a coalition capable of mustering a “solid” majority, pushing more moderate parts of the left-wing alliance to abandon the LFI.
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