• Direct The Prime Minister, François Bayrou, speaks from 8:40 p.m. on France 2, follow his first interview since his appointment to Matignon

The new Prime Minister, François Bayrou, is the guest of “L’Evénement, l’interview” on France 2, Thursday December 19 at 8:40 p.m. This is the first interview with the head of government since his appointment to Matignon by Emmanuel Macron on Friday. After a complicated first week, the head of MoDem will answer questions from Caroline Roux, Nathalie Saint-Criq and Dominique Seux. Committed to the formation of a new government, the centrist received Thursday afternoon the leaders of political parties, apart from the National Rally, the UDR and La France insoumise, for consultations in Matignon. Follow our live stream.

François Bayrou suggests that the parties enter the government. During the transpartisan meeting organized in Matignon, the Prime Minister asked his interlocutors to position themselves by Friday, promising that his government would be announced “before Christmas”. The head of the future government, who has held numerous interviews since his appointment, has also proposed to party leaders of “resume without suspend” the 2023 pension reform.

The Prime Minister does not intend to “discard” the RN and LFI from “national life”. François Bayrou considered that the non-invitation of these two parties to today’s meeting was not “no reason to exclude them from national life”promising to “involve people in the work we have to do”reports Matignon. “On all substantive issues, my intention is that republican dialogue fully plays its role”he added.

The doubtful left facing Bayrou, the more open right. “We have not found reasons not to censor it”declared the first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure, at the end of the meeting. “I am still waiting for François Bayrou to take on the role of Prime Minister. But I wonder if he will succeed”added the leader of the environmentalist senators, Guillaume Gontard. The former president of the Liot group Bertrand Pancher, on the contrary, found the meeting “interesting”. For his part, the boss of LR deputies, Laurent Wauquiez, asked the other representatives “a six-month stability commitment” for the future government.