"Do things in order": Villepin calls for the appointment of a left-wing Prime Minister

Dominique de Villepin called on Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday, September 3, to appoint a Prime Minister "from the left-wing bloc that came out on top in the last elections" and said he was opposed to a dissolution that would lead to "a crisis of the regime."

"We must do things in order. We must start with the bloc that came out on top in the last elections , it is a left-wing bloc. Let's ask the people who are likely to form this government. If it fails, then we will turn to the central bloc," the former Prime Minister pleaded on TF1.

The President of the Republic "has confused the issue"

"The President of the Republic has mixed everything up by calling Michel Barnier in 2024, a party that barely got more than 5%. He has muddied the waters, he has not respected the democratic game," he judged, repeating an argument he had already made the day after the legislative elections.

"In the event of successive failures, obviously, the only option left will be dissolution," he acknowledged.

Dissolution? "The politics of the worst"

But dissolution "is the worst policy, the impossibility of a majority. Why do you want the result to be very different after a new election?" he said.

"From now on, it is the president who is on the front line. And we are entering a real crisis of the regime, with the president being called into question and sooner or later being faced with resignation," feared Dominique de Villepin, who makes no secret of his desire to be a candidate in the next presidential election.