PARIS (Reuters) – French left and right parties on Thursday rejected French President Emmanuel Macron’s call for help to overcome a divided parliament, demanding he clarify what commitments he is ready to make to win their support.
Before leaving for a European Union summit in Brussels, Macron on Wednesday gave a televised speech in which he acknowledged that this month’s parliamentary elections had revealed “deep divisions” in French society.
Discarding a national unity government, he urged leaders of rival parties to consider possible coalition options with their center alliance or consider supporting reforms on a project-by-project basis.
But the move was largely dismissed as an attempt to lure others into its policies while making few concessions.
“If he sticks to his project, he won’t have an absolute majority,” socialist deputy Valérie Rabault told France Inter radio. “It will be him blocking France, not us.”
Bruno Retailleau, a senator from the right-wing Les Republicains party, considered Macron’s best hope of getting his economic reforms through parliament, ruled out any form of coalition saying there was no confidence in Macron.
“For us, it will be case by case,” he said.
Louis Aliot, vice president of Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National (RN), which is now the second largest party in parliament, also rejected the appeal. Far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon called Macron’s speech “ratatouille”, a southern dish combining vegetables with lots of olive oil.
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