Blois, France: “They are willing to accept that the left should take on responsibility, but on one condition — that it ceases to be the left”. The New Popular Front’s candidate for Matignon, Lucie Castets, the Socialist Party’s First Secretary Olivier Faure and other NFP representatives held a meeting at the PS summer university in Blois, as another week of consultations failed to produce a Prime Minister.
French President Emmanuel Macron earlier this week rejected the New Popular Front coalition’s choice of economist and civil servant Lucie Castets, 37, to become premier, arguing a left-wing government would be a “threat to institutional stability”
