François Bayrou’s general policy speech expected on January 14. The new Prime Minister François Bayrou will deliver his general policy declaration to Parliament on January 14. Every new head of government pronounces this declaration to give his road map and his main objectives. He can request a vote of confidence, but this is not an obligation. His predecessors Elisabeth Borne, Gabriel Attal, and Michel Barnier, deprived like him of an absolute majority, had not done so.
Bayrou “was unable to clearly answer any questions”, tackle the Environmentalists. When they left Matignon, the leaders of the Ecologists criticized the new Prime Minister: François Bayrou “could not answer any questions clearly”, denounces Cyrielle Châtelain, boss of the Ecologist deputies.
“A cordial exchange,” declared the Liot group after its meeting with Bayrou. Group leader Stéphane Lenormand spoke of “a cordial, lively exchange on all subjects”. He recalled “the need to give stability to our country to have confidence and be able to work”.
The communists speak of “choices” which “place them in opposition”. Received in Matignon as part of the consultations to form a government, the communists spoke of a “frank” discussion. “We see that we are faced with choices that place us in opposition but we will fight,” declared Fabien Roussel.
Bayrou defends his presence in Pau on Monday: “Pau is in France”. In the midst of a humanitarian disaster in Mayotte, “you should not have gone to Pau to keep a mandate,” the boss of LFI deputies Mathilde Panot told François Bayrou, in reference to the presence of the Prime Minister at the municipal council on Monday evening. of his city. “ I was at the crisis meeting in Mayotte, but by video »replies the Prime Minister. “Pau is in France […] I chaired the municipal council of my city from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. I consider that, in doing so, I was also in my place as a citizen and I intend to defend this idea that citizenship is not divided between being in Paris and fulfilling one’s responsibilities as a citizen on the ground,” adds -he.
Accumulation of mandates: first controversy of the Bayrou era. The new Prime Minister François Bayrou attracted strong criticism on Monday by choosing to go to Pau, and not to the meeting in Paris of the crisis unit on the devastated archipelago, a meeting which he however followed remotely. From the city of which he has been mayor for 10 years, he indicated that he wanted to reverse the ban on the accumulation of mandates for parliamentarians and confirmed his intention to remain at the head of the municipality, attracting criticism.
The social partners are calling for a return to “stability”. Seven of the eight representatives of employers’ and trade union organizations signed a joint press release this Tuesday calling for the return of “stability, visibility and serenity” and emphasizing that paritarianism can “provide concrete responses”. This press release, very rare in its unity, is signed – in the alphabetical order of the leaders, which thus intermingles representatives of employers and unions – by the Medef, the CPME, the U2P on the employers’ side, the CFDT, FO, the CFTC and CFE-CGC on the union side. Only the CGT did not sign it.
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