France’s new Prime Minister Lecornu resigns hours after naming cabinet

President Emmanuel Macron accepts resignation of newly appointed prime minister after criticism over cabinet lineup.

Al Jazeera

"In summer 2024, #France stood on the brink of a far-right takeover. But the disaster was avoided thanks to a #NewPopularFront of parties headed by long-standing left-wing leader #JeanLucMélenchon [...] #NowThePeople! details his vision of revolution in our time."

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Now, the People! Revolution in the Twenty-First Century

French left moves no-confidence vote against Barnier - with little hope it passes

The left-wing New Popular Front (NFP) union moved a vote of no-confidence on Friday afternoon (4 October) in h

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As the Olympics start in France and the French election results coming in over 3 weeks ago, Macron continues to delay appointing a new PM. Macron is certainly not winning any medals for democracy.

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France: Macron winning no medals for democracy

French President Emmanuel Macron does not plan to appoint a new Prime Minister until at least mid-August and is holding out hope he can cobble together a coalition and block the left from government, writes John Mullen.

Green Left

Risk of far right gaining power has not gone away, warns French #Green leader

#MarineTondelier, whose party forms part of the election-winning #NewPopularFront, says politics must change to regain voters’ trust
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Risk of far right gaining power has not gone away, warns French Green leader

Marine Tondelier, whose party forms part of the election-winning New Popular Front, says politics must change to regain voters’ trust

The Guardian

After the elections, #Mélenchon has focused entirely on negotiations with right-wing forces in the capitalist state, repeatedly asking #Macron to name him prime minister, which Macron has refused to do.

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After the French elections, New Popular Front swings to the right

The task is independently mobilizing working class militancy in struggle for demands that give voice to the objectively revolutionary opposition of the masses to capitalism.

World Socialist Web Site
A shock election win for France's leftist alliance has reinforced wariness among investors who had already braced for the risk of political deadlock and a policy paralysis that's unlikely to improve the country's creaking public finances. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/07/09/markets/french-left-election-investors/ #business #markets #newpopularfront #marinelepen #nationalrally #emmanuelmacron #france #investors
Debt and political deadlock keep investors nervous after French election

At the center of the euro project and the bloc's second biggest economy, France, still faces a hung parliament and taxing negotiations to form a government.

The Japan Times

For years on this channel, we've been talking about the need for the US left to detach from the Democratic Party and for the existing, mostly quite small left parties to join together in a #LeftCoalition or #LeftCongress to intensify the class struggle and increase workers' economic and political power. This week in France, the Nouveau Front Populaire (NFP) or New Popular Front, which has done just that, took the lead in the national elections and, together with the "center" ("moderate" right) forces behind Macron, pushed the extreme-right Marine Le Pen and her fascist National Rally party into third place at a time when they had been expected to win control of the government.

The NFP includes parties from the center-left to the far-left such as Jean-Luc Mélenchon's France Unbowed (La France Insoumise or LFI), Mitterand's and Hollande's Socialist Party (PS), the French Green Party (LE-EELV), and the French Communist Party (PCF), among others. While all of these deserve significant criticism and most likely will not be able to guide the French masses out of capitalism in their present form, they are far preferable in the short term to Macron's neoliberal austerity ghouls or the flat-out neo-Nazis of the National Rally. The French masses now must take every opportunity to strengthen the fight for better conditions, increased class consciousness, and an independent, internationalist, revolutionary party of the proletariat as they struggle to build a movement capable of ending capitalism in France.

From the NFP's website:

"You asked us; we did it: the new Popular Front was born to govern and change everything.

"We have united, beyond political parties, around a program of rupture, solid, coherent and fair, quantified by economists and experts:

"1) To defend purchasing power and wages;

"2) For public services everywhere, from overseas to the countryside via working-class neighborhoods;

"3) For all women who demand equality and an end to violence;

"4) To defend the climate and living things;

"5) For all those who experience racism, anti-Semitism or Islamophobia;

"6) To defend the Republic against the far right.

"We are the camp of social, ecological, popular victories and peace. Progress and bright tomorrows. Our history is great. We must now write the future of our country."

source: https://www.france24.com/en/france/20240707-france-s-leftist-new-popular-front-wins-a-shock-victory-%E2%80%93-but-now-the-hard-part-begins
source: https://www.nouveaufrontpopulaire.fr/

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France’s leftist New Popular Front wins a shock victory – but now the hard part begins

France's New Popular Front has won the largest number of seats in the final round of snap parliamentary elections, leaving behind the remnants of President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist camp and the far-right National Rally trailing in third place. It’s a staggering result for a closely fought election that has left the country without a clear candidate for prime minister – and the hastily assembled broad leftist coalition without an absolute majority that would allow it to push through its ambitious programme.

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Macron refuses to accept resignation of France’s first gay prime minister following election results

French president Emmanuel Macron has rejected the resignation of France's first gay prime minister, Gabriel Attal following the election.

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