François Bayrou begins his consultations in Matignon starting with the National Rally

Who will join François Bayrou's government and on what program? The Prime Minister begins a series of consultations with the main political forces on Monday December 16, three days after his stormy appointment to Matignon. In accordance with his wish to receive the parliamentary groups “in their order of importance” digital at the National Assembly, it will begin at 9 a.m. with the president of the National Rally group of deputies, Marine Le Pen, accompanied by the president of the party, Jordan Bardella. Follow our live stream.

Gabriel Attal received before the PS and LR. François Bayrou, who made a point of personally calling each group leader, will then speak with Gabriel Attal, both the leader of the Macronist deputies Ensemble pour la République (EPR) and president of the Renaissance party, who has already made an impression on him his support. The socialist group leaders will follow, Boris Vallaud for the Assembly and Patrick Kanner for the Senate, with the First Secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure, then the leader of the Republican Right deputies, Laurent Wauquiez, who will come alone.

The rebels reject the invitation. La France insoumise refused to meet François Bayrou in this context, “fear” according to Jean-Luc Mélenchon “let this all be a comedy again”. “There can be no question of participating in a grand coalition government or negotiating any non-censorship agreement”warned the head of the LFI deputies, Mathilde Panot.

The special bill examined in the Assembly. Time is running out for the formation of the government, which will carry the new finance bill for 2025. In this regard, the new Prime Minister received the outgoing Budget Minister, Laurent Saint-Martin, on Sunday, while the deputies must begin , Monday, the examination of the draft special law which will allow the continuity of the State, in the absence of a budget adopted on time. He also spoke on Saturday with the governor of the Bank of France, François Villeroy de Galhau, and the president of the Court of Auditors, Pierre Moscovici. So many possible profiles for Bercy, like that of Roland Lescure, former Minister of Industry, whose name had circulated for Matignon.