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French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a ceremony to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the village Bormes-les-Mimosas during World War II, south-eastern France, August 17, 2024
LEFT-WING leaders in France today called for mass protests against the refusal of President Emmanuel Macron to appoint a prime minister from the New Popular Front alliance (NPF).
The NPF, made up of communists, socialists, greens and France Unbowed, won most seats in last month’s national assembly elections, nominated Paris civil servant Lucie Castets to be the country’s next prime minister.
Only the French president has the authority to name a new prime minister from which a government will be constructed.
DENNIS BROE gives an update on the last week of anti-austerity protests against the Macron regime, which has seen the supposedly more right-leaning Gilets Jaunes join with the unions and the left
The desperate French president keeps running up the same political cul-de-sac. DENNIS BROE offers an explanation
In the run-up to the Communist Party congress in November ROB GRIFFITHS outlines a few ideas regarding its participation in the elections of May 2026