French Socialist Party calls on voters thwart a "right-wing government"

Record ID: 875321

  • Title: French Socialist Party calls on voters thwart a "right-wing government"
  • Date: 18th May 2017
  • Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (MAY 18, 2017) (REUTERS) FIRST SECRETARY OF FRENCH SOCIALIST PARTY, JEAN-CHRISTOPHE CAMBADELIS, ARRIVING ON STAGE PODIUM / CAMBADELIS SPEAKING SOCIALIST PARTY LOGO (SOUNDBITE) (French) FIRST SECRETARY OF FRENCH SOCIALIST PARTY, JEAN-CHRISTOPHE CAMBADELIS, SAYING: "The goal is to gag the National Assembly to destroy the right-wing laws. There is no Socialist m
  • Embargoed: 1st June 2017 13:42
  • Keywords: Jean-Christophe Cambadelis Socialist Party election government
  • Location: PARIS, FRANCE
  • City: PARIS, FRANCE
  • Country: France
  • Topics: Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
  • Reuters ID: LVA0016HD90LJ
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: The First Secretary of the French Socialist party on Thursday (May 18) denounced a "right-wing" cabinet appointed by new President Emmanuel Macron and called on voters to thwart it by backing the Socialists in upcoming parliamentary elections.
    Support for Macron's new centrist party is growing before legislative elections next month, a poll found on Thursday, raising the chances that he will be able to win parliamentary backing for his reform plans.
    Macron, 39, who smashed the traditional left-right grip on French politics to win the presidency, gave ministerial jobs to conservatives, socialists and political newcomers on Wednesday, appointing an unprecedented all-stripes cabinet to bridge divides and broaden his support.
    The newly-appointed ministers will allow the Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, himself a conservative, to pursue a right-leaning economic policy, the Socialists' First Secretary, Jean-Christophe Cambadelis, said.
    Macron's party announced a list of 428 candidates, most of them political unknowns, last Thursday to fight the parliamentary elections.
    The vote in the first round of the parliamentary elections will take place on June 11.
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