Europe 1 with AFP 7:08 p.m., November 06, 2022

While the LFI and RN parties say they are "ready" to return to the voters, for his part, Olivier Véran affirms that the French "do not want the dissolution" of the National Assembly.

The government spokesman also believes that there is "no stigma" of parliament being blocked at the moment.

The French "do not want" a dissolution of the National Assembly, where the government only has a relative majority, spokesman Olivier Véran said on Sunday, also observing that there was "no stigma “blocking at the Palais-Bourbon at the moment.

"I do not live in a frame of reference which would consist in giving an expiry date to the National Assembly which the French have entrusted to us", he declared on the set of the program

Dimanche en politique

on France 3.

"I think the French don't want that," he continued.

"I think that the French have granted us a relative majority to push us to have cross-party agreement approaches, to be able to get out of the postures a little," insisted the government spokesperson.

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Emmanuel Macron himself brandished in September the threat of a dissolution, only three months after the legislative elections, if the oppositions allied in a motion of censure to overthrow the government. 

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affirms for its part that the Renaissance party has completed its preparations, calendar of nominations and training of candidates, in order to be ready at any time for the announcement of a dissolution.

But such a choice is only made in the event of "complete blockage of Parliament", underlined Olivier Véran.

However, "for the moment we have none of the stigmata of this blockage", he argued.

And "each motion of censure that has been presented to Parliament" in recent days, "wins fewer votes than the previous one", he added, arguing that there was "no alternative majority to be proposed in the country".

In this context, the spokesperson appealed to the "republican right", particularly in view of the future pension reform "which it has been calling for for years".

The support of the Socialists is also hoped for on the text aimed at accelerating renewable energies, adopted at first reading in the Senate last Friday evening.

"In the name of what would the Republican left oppose texts which make it possible to increase solar power in our country", wondered Olivier Véran.