François Bayrou invites political parties outside the LFI and RN to Matignon

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Nearly a week after his appointment, at the end of a first series of consultations, François Bayrou invites the political forces, but not LFI nor the RN, to Matignon, before finalizing his government with Emmanuel Macron.

The Prime Minister invites the presidents of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet and the Senate Gérard Larcher to 2 p.m. As well as “the presidents of parties and groups who had responsibility for the affairs of the country at one period or another of the Fifth Republic”, he wrote in a letter. A formulation which excludes the National Rally and its ally, Eric Ciotti’s UDR, as well as La France insoumise, founded in 2016.