In the first reactions of the main parties of the French National Assembly to the appointment of Michel Barnier as the country’s new prime minister, far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon condemned the choice, launching an attack on President Emmanuel Macron, while the far-right National Alarm (RN) party appeared to take a wait-and-see attitude towards the political moves of the newly appointed conservative prime minister. “The election was stolen from the French people,” complained Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who is part of the New Popular Front, a broad coalition of parties ranging from the Socialists to Mélenchon’s France Insubordinate, which came first in the election. “The president has just decided to officially deny the result of the parliamentary elections that he had announced. It is not the New People’s Front, which came first in the elections, that will have the prime minister… So the elections were stolen from the French people. The message was rejected,” Melanchon continued. RN leader Jordan Bardela said his party would “(judge) the political speech” of the new prime minister before deciding on a stance […]
Source: News Beast
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