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The newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday, September 24, 2024, p. 23
Paris. The new right-leaning government of French President Emmanuel Macron began taking its first steps yesterday under the threat of a vote of no confidence from the left and the desire of influence of the extreme right.
During the first Council of Ministers, held yesterday, Macron called on the government to show humility and spirit of dialogueeven with the French who did not vote for them, several participants indicated.
France has entered a new phase of this crisis that Macron provoked by unexpectedly bringing forward the legislative elections to 2027 last June, which resulted in a divided National Assembly (lower house) with no majorities.
To solve this problem, the president, who cannot dissolve the Assembly again until July, appointed the conservative Michel Barnier as prime minister two months later with the mission of forming a government of unit.
But the 73-year-old veteran politician was only able to attract Macron’s centre-right alliance, which has been in power since 2017, and his own conservative party, the hitherto opposition Republicans.
The left-wing coalition New Popular Front, which was seeking to govern as the leading force in the elections, has already announced that it will present a motion of censure against the new government, which is at the mercy of the extreme right.
