Almost 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, on Thursday to Matignon, before finalizing his government with Emmanuel Macron, expected on Thursday in Mayotte . Follow our live stream.
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.
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Information to remember:
- François Bayrou invites the political forces, but not LFI nor the RN, Thursday to Matignon.
- The PS also made it known that it will only go to Matignon “under certain conditions”.
- Without a majority in the Assembly, the centrist is currently facing strong demands from the Republicans (LR) on the right, and growing attempts at censorship on the left.
The Prime Minister’s first steps are “completely unsuccessful”
A formulation which excludes the National Rally and its ally, Éric Ciotti’s UDR, as well as La France insoumise, founded in 2016. François Bayrou “despises the National Rally and its millions of voters”, castigated the vice-president of the Sébastien Chenu party. The welcome is also cool among certain guests. The boss of the Ecologists Marine Tondelier consults the leadership of her party and her partners in the New Popular Front before making her decision.
The Prime Minister’s first steps are “completely unsuccessful”, she commented on BFMTV on Wednesday. He has been “the laughing stock of the French” since his return trip to his town of Pau, in the midst of the crisis in Mayotte. The PS also informed AFP that it will only go to Matignon “under certain conditions”, without further details at this stage.
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His first week at Matignon marked by a barrage of criticism
Appointed on Friday, at the end of a tense morning in Emmanuel Macron’s office, François Bayrou has since received political leaders and parliamentarians on rue de Varenne for official or more informal meetings. But his first week in Matignon was especially marked by the barrage of criticism over his presence on the municipal council of Pau, a city of which he intends to remain mayor.
The new Prime Minister had to explain this during his first session at the National Assembly, without silencing the critics. All while increasing the number of trips to the Élysée for the formation of the government.
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As Emmanuel Macron is expected in Mayotte on Thursday, then with French troops in Djibouti, several actors are talking about a government announcement on Sunday. But the two executive houses give no date.
Bayrou facing attempts at censorship
In his letter to the parties, François Bayrou invokes, alongside the political and budgetary crisis, the situation of the Indian Ocean archipelago, which has suffered “probably the most serious natural disaster in the history of France for several centuries “. He also mentions New Caledonia, believing that “these two situations added together” place political leaders “faced with unprecedented responsibilities”.
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Enough to bring about a form of union? Without a majority in the Assembly, the centrist, who has been advocating for decades a government bringing together various sensitivities, is currently facing strong demands from the Republicans (LR) on the right, and growing attempts at censorship on the left.
Wednesday morning, François Bayrou received the resigning Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau, who had just declared on BFMTV that in the eyes of LR, the conditions were “not met” for his desired retention in government. “It would be a shame if the government moved to the left while France is to the right,” said Mr. Retailleau.
The new Prime Minister struggles to convince
Same back-to-back criticism coming from the left: “If he comes to offer us the same budget as Mr. Barnier proposed, that is to say we just change the people, but we have the same, the same budgets , the same difficulties for the French, we are censoring this budget,” insisted the communist Fabien Roussel.
More moderate, Johanna Rolland, first deputy secretary of the PS, called for “interlocutors (…) who sit around the table and who tell us the path to compromise, to move towards non-censorship, which can be asked.
The format of the meeting convened on Thursday by the Prime Minister is reminiscent of that held nine days ago around Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée, where scenarios of non-censorship of oppositions were discussed, provided that there was no recourse to 49.3 by the government or dissolution by the president. Three days before the appointment of François Bayrou.
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