The far right has warned Macron that it will veto any proposal from the left to form a government

MADRID (Euronews) – The far-right National Bloc warned French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday that it would veto any attempt by the left to form a government, even if it did not have ministers from France Insumisa (LFI), and already a month and a half after the victory of the New Popular Front (NFP) in the legislative elections, it proposed a referendum to escape the country’s political blockade.

“The absence of the LFI changes absolutely nothing,” far-right leader Marine Le Pen said after meeting Macron at the Elysee Palace, accompanied by party leader and prime ministerial candidate Jordan Bardella.

Le Pen thus responded to a proposal by LFI leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who said the day before that his party would be excluded from the formation of a new government in order to accelerate the NFP’s accession to power.

However, Le Pen insisted that the “New Popular Front is led by Frans Insoumis”, criticizing it as having to be the “most brutal, violent, excessive, shameless” group to impose its laws.

In this sense, they announced that they would vote against any initiative of the left to form a government and asked Macron to convene an extraordinary session of the National Assembly before appointing a new prime minister, in order to be able to “exercise scrutiny if necessary.”

“I don’t want a prime minister who can, in a month, by decree, implement, through a series of means provided for in the constitution, a policy that is poisonous and dangerous for the French,” Le Pen said.

After a meeting with the spokesperson of the National Group, it was the turn of Republican leader Eric Sciotti, who also announced that they would oppose any government initiative coming from the left.

For Ciotti, who defended the agreement with the far right during the campaign, “all the parties” that make up the National Liberal Party are “dangerous”. In the end, he believes that Macron will open a new round of negotiations.

On Friday, representatives of the AFP, led by prime ministerial candidate Lucie Castets, met with Macron, thus launching the first round of consultations, and according to the left leader “he recognized that the French had sent a clear message in the legislation for the elections”.