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La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, December 4, 2024, p. 21
Riyadh. French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday rejected calls for his resignation and described them as politics fictionone day before the vote on two motions of censure presented against the government of Prime Minister Michel Barnier.
It doesn’t make sense, frankly, it’s not up to par to say these things.said the center-right head of state during a visit to Saudi Arabia.
The reason I am before you is that I have been elected twice by the French people. I am very proud of it and I will honor that trust with all the energy that corresponds to me until the last second to be useful to the country.he added.
He made this statement a day before French deputies vote on the two motions of censure presented by the left and the extreme right against the government.
Unless there is a last-minute change, the motion presented by the left-wing coalition of the New Popular Front (NFP) should be approved with the support of the far-right National Rally (RN).
Macron accused the RN of unbearable cynicism for supporting the motion and said he did not believe in the censure vote of the Executive, which has barely been in power for three months.
The second largest economy in the European Union has been mired in a political crisis since Macron decided in June to bring forward the legislative elections scheduled for 2027, which led to a chamber without clear majorities.
In recent days, Barnier multiplied the concessions to the RN, the party with the most deputies in Parliament, to prevent it from supporting the left’s motion of censure.
The president asked don’t scare peoplereferring to the risks of a financial crisis in the event that Barnier’s government falls.
We have a strong economyhe stressed. France is a rich, solid country, which made many reforms and maintains them, which has stable institutions and a Constitutionhe asserted.
