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Macron's first prime minister ever clarifies his plans in an interview with Le Point. He doesn't say it ambiguously - he's doing it.

And the Socialist Party released a statement clarifying their intentions with Macron too - no alliance.

Show Notes

- ⁠Édouard Philippe : « Je serai candidat à la prochaine élection présidentielle »⁠ (fr)

- ⁠Présidentielle 2027 : l’ancien premier ministre Édouard Philippe annonce officiellement sa candidature⁠ (fr)

- ⁠Socialist Party statement⁠ (fr)

More Context From Flap24

- ⁠The PS Wants To Govern With Macron⁠ (en)

- ⁠A Socialist Party and a Constitutional Coup⁠ (en)

- ⁠Glucksmann and Cazenueve to the Government⁠ (en)

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Two months out with no new prime minister, Macron might be drawing closer to the moment...but it looks like he still wants to name his own ministers to key positions. Macron's goal is clear: no change in policy whoever's leading the next government.

And apparently Marine Le Pen played a card to get her way with Macron. Is Xavier Bertrand out?

Show Notes

- Nouveau Premier ministre : Larcher, Bayrou et Attal reçus tour à tour à l’Elysée (fr)

- Candidatures à Matignon : Macron maintient le flou (fr)

- Nouveau Premier ministre : Larcher, Bayrou et Attal reçus tour à tour à l’Elysée (fr)

- Le président refuse une cohabitation (fr)

- Matignon : Bernard Cazeneuve, l’homme qui fracasse le PS (fr)

- The Xavier Bertrand Hypothesis (en)

- The Bernard Cazeneuve Hypothesis (en)

- The PS Wants To Govern With Macron (en)

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Melenchon makes a surprising offer to the Macronists - why did he do this?

The ranks of La France Insoumise continue to grow, and without the dissidents, the party remains more convinced than ever of its strategic orientation.

Meanwhile the Greens have their congress with new arrivals in their ranks.

Olly's recent Jacobin article on the state of France:

https://jacobin.com/2024/08/macron-journalism-fixing-france-reivew

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Macron meets the representatives of the NFP... and refuses to name a Prime Minister.

Attal says the centrist bloc will censure any government with LFI in it. Mélenchon calls Macron an autocrat and Roussel calls his actions a coup.

Show Notes

- Our episode with Charles Devellenes on Macron's thirst for power

- Olly's Jacobin article

- Mediapart's rundown of the day

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In dribs and drabs the Socialist Party is signalling - sometimes openly - that they want to break with LFI and govern with Macron. Will they take the plunge?

Over in the presidential camp, Élisabeth Borne announces that she's running to lead Macron's party, Renaissance. But there are whispers that Gabriel Attal wants the post as well. A bloc is forming to block his ambitions.

And Renaissance deputies are trying to strip LFI Eurodeputy Rima Hassan of her parliamentary immunity after appearing at a protest in Jordan against Israel's genocide in Palestine that they say was "pro-Hamas."

Show Notes

- Avant la rencontre avec Macron, le PS replonge dans ses divisions sur l’alliance avec LFI

- Politico Playbook Paris newsletter

- Élisabeth Borne : « Je suis candidate à la direction de Renaissance »

- Bergé et Beaune annoncent soutenir Borne pour diriger Renaissance, au nom de «l'esprit collectif»

- Manifestation des 25 et 26 octobre 2014 contre le barrage de Sivens (wiki)

- Une cinquantaine de députés Renaissance demandent la levée de l'immunité parlementaire de Rima Hassan

- En Jordanie, la député européenne insoumise Rima Hassan s’affiche dans une manifestation pro-Hamas

- Rima Hassan s’affiche pro-Hamas sans réserve en Jordanie

- Two previous episodes about the Socialist Party inching towards a coalition with Macron

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There's discontent in the Socialist Party over the alliance with La France Insoumise. Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol and Hélène Geoffroy want out again.

Éric Ciotti's party is defining its political course in the National Assembly - trotting faithfully along behind the National Rally, the most powerful force on the right.

And Gabriel Attal sent letters to his ministers laying out the cap on their budgets for 2025 - for many a political move, given the fact that Attal's government lost an election over a month ago now.

Show Notes

- Paris Playbook, August 21st, 2024

- France’s Once-Mighty Socialist Party Must Change or Die (Marlon's article)

- Les députés du groupe d’Éric Ciotti, À droite, entrent dans l’arène

- Coup d’envoi pour le budget 2025, décisif sur le plan politique

- Le camp présidentiel prêt à amender certains de ses dogmes économiques

- « On est vraiment dans l’inconnu » : le scénario d’une Assemblée incapable de voter le budget agite les constitutionnalistes

- Fixing France: How to Repair a Broken Republic

- Emmanuel Macron’s France Is a Broken Republic (Olly's article)

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LFI is on guard against reports that the Socialist Party won't oppose Bernard Cazeneuve as Macron's Prime Minister pick.

Raphaël Glucksmann is out with a long interview in Le Point where he talks about turning the page on Macron and Mélenchon, rebuilding French social democracy, and his presidential ambitions.

And the National Rally is preparing for another election in a year's time, resigned to what they say is inevitable paralysis whoever gets picked for PM anyway.

Show Notes

- La gauche se déchire après la menace d’une procédure de destitution d’Emmanuel Macron défendue par LFI

- Jérôme Legavre Tweet

- Antoine Léaument Tweet

- Aurélien Saintoul Tweet

- Lucie Castets affirme que le sujet « n’est pas la destitution mais la cohabitation » avec Emmanuel Macron, sur fond de divisions à gauche

- Raphaël Glucksmann : « Il faut tourner la page Macron et Mélenchon ! »

- Le RN dit se préparer à une « nouvelle dissolution » au terme d’une « année de paralysie »

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François Bayrou talked with Le Figaro yesterday and called for...a government that avoids the extremes.

He also excluded Lucie Castets from becoming Prime Minster, the NFP candidate for the position, saying she has no experience.

We also take a look at a Senate Bill which would require a President under the Constitution to name a Prime Minister within 8 days of an election...it's been about 7 weeks now.

Show Notes

- François Bayrou : «Il est urgent de sortir du jeu des partis politiques qui feignent de vouloir gouverner»

- Pourquoi Emmanuel Macron prend son temps pour nommer un nouveau premier ministre

- Destituer Macron? "Chaque jour qui passe est une sorte d'abus de pouvoir," assène un député LFI

- Recent Senate Texts

- Propositions de loi constitutionnelle, Texte n° 742 (2023-2024): Statut de Gouvernement démissionnaire

- Texte n° 742 (2023-2024), Exposé des motifs

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The Socialist Party and the Greens reject the LFI's impeachment puch as the way forward against Macron.

The Socialist Party says a vote of no confidence is the way to go if and when Macron names a Prime Minister outside of the New Popular Front's candidate, Lucie Castets.

And a brief note on Alain Delon's death, the new moment for secular sainthood and a possibility for Macron to continue avoiding politics.

Show Notes

- Gérald Darmanin Tweet

- Olivier Faure Tweet

- Jean-Marie Le Pen Tweet

- Les Insoumis accentuent la pression et menacent Emmanuel Macron de destitution

- Destitution d’Emmanuel Macron : le Parti socialiste ne soutient pas la menace brandie par La France insoumise

- Menace de destitution d’Emmanuel Macron : le coup de com de LFI agace les autres membres du NFP

- Mort d’Alain Delon : pluie d’hommages à droite, la gauche plus circonspecte

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Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the LFI want to impeach Macron under Article 68 of the French constitution.

They say that's he's derelict in his duties to be a neutral arbiter by refusing to accept the democratic verdict of the recent legislative elections.

Impeaching Macron would be difficult to get through both chambers of France's parliament, but Mélenchon's party has enough deputies to get the ball rolling with a resolution in the National Assembly.

Show Notes

- ⁠« Démettre le président plutôt que nous soumettre » (par Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Mathilde Panot et Manuel Bompard)⁠

- ⁠Article 68 - Constitution du 4 octobre 1958⁠

- ⁠LOI organique n° 2014-1392 du 24 novembre 2014 portant application de l'article 68 de la Constitution (1)⁠

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