France, former PM Attal proposes a “republican pact” with the socialists: will Macron listen?

After the runoff elections in early July in France, there is only one government that can gather a self-sufficient majority in numbers in Parliament: it is the one based on the axis between Macronians and Socialists with the support of the left-wing Gaullists. A hypothesis that could have become reality if the Socialists had had the strength to break away from the maximalist wing of the Popular Front and if they had supported the hypothesis three months ago Cazeneuve overshadowed by Macron. Now, in one of France's darkest moments, it is the turn of the young former prime minister Gabriel Attal relaunch the opening to the socialists. Attal has proposed a "republican pact" open to all French democratic forces, except the Le Penists and Mélenchonists, which would give life to a government with a prime minister above the parties. It is an excellent idea and a dose of political realism, on two conditions: that the socialists - from Holland a Glucksmann – wake up and have the courage to break away from Mélenchon and that President Macron retraces his steps by giving the mandate of prime minister to a candidate who can gain the approval of the socialists. For now, well done Attal