Macron: 'Extreme right and extreme left united in anti-Republican pact. I will stay until 2027"
The president: 'A special law will be presented by mid-December in Parliament, which will allow the continuity of public services'
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A government of 'general interest'. This, after the censure to Michel Barnier, is the goal of French President Emmanuel Macron, who has ruled out his own resignation. In the next few days, he said in a televised message to his fellow citizens, "I will appoint a prime minister, I will entrust him with the task of forming a government of general interest that represents all the political forces of an arc of government that can participate in it or at least undertake not to censure it". 'It is necessary to build,' he went on to explain, 'new compromises'.
"They chose disorder"
.Extreme forces will certainly be excluded: no Rassemblement national (Rn), nor France Insoumise (Lfi). 'Extreme right and extreme left,' he said, 'have united in an anti-republican front. They do not think of you, of your difficulties, of the end of the month. They think about the presidential elections, to prepare them, to provoke them, to precipitate them,' he added, and they do so 'with cynicism': 'They have chosen disorder'.
Dimensions excluded
.It is in order to break these plans that Macron was quick to rule out his resignation. "The mandate you have democratically given me is a five-year one, and I will carry it out fully until the end". Until 2027 when, he added, "I will not be able to run for office", a circumstance that has an important consequence for him: "The only timetable that interests me is not that of ambition, it is that of the nation". 'I will never take on the responsibilities of others,' he added, recalling how the dissolution of the Assemblée 'was not understood'.
No to more taxes and more regulations
The new government will have to ensure that the French do not 'pay the bill' for this crisis. It will therefore present a special law to parliament in mid-December, and this temporary law will allow, as the constitution provides, the continuity of public services and the life of the country': 'It will apply for 2025,' he specified, 'the choices of 2024' in terms of financial manoeuvre. Then, at the beginning of the year, it will prepare a new budget. The government will have to 'start from reality and not from phantoms and counter-truths: I do not believe that the future of France can be made with more taxes, more regulations or with some form of laxity towards drug trafficking or in the multiplication of divisions or in the abandonment of our climate ambition'. 'It is necessary,' he went on to say, 'for this government to unite to act concretely, during these thirty months, for us and our children'.
"Against anguish, hope"
.Macron, recalling the Olympic Games and the reconstruction of Notre Dame, which will be inaugurated at the weekend, called for 'a clear course for these thirty months: school, health, security, work, progress, climate, Europe'. Against attempts to weaken the country, Macron calls for the will to rebuild; against insults 'wisdom'; where there are divisions 'unity'. 'Everywhere, where some give in to anguish, want hope'. Macron also thanked Michel Barnier, for his 'dedication' and 'pugnacity': 'He and his ministers have risen to the occasion,' he said, 'while others have not.
