While the announcement was planned for Thursday evening, the name of the new Prime Minister should finally be revealed on Friday, December 13, the Elysée announced. The name of Michel Barnier’s successor will be announced via a press release, the head of state’s entourage announced to France Télévisions. Emmanuel Macron “concludes its consultations”the entourage of the President of the Republic responded Thursday evening to franceinfo to explain the additional delay compared to the deadline initially planned. François Bayrou, the president of MoDem, is due to meet Emmanuel Macron at the Elysée at 8:30 a.m., the political service of France Télévisions has learned. “François Bayrou is someone very important in the macronie”political scientist Bruno Cautres recalled on France 2. If he is received at the Elysée, it is either “to tell him face to face the reasons why we don’t choose him. It’s a mark of respect to receive himhe noticed. Either it’s to remove the doubts he must have had over the last few hours.” Follow the political news of the day in our live stream.
The PS will exclude any socialist entering a government that is not left-wing. The warning was made by the party on Thursday. This is an exclusion procedure “in application of the statutes” of the party, franceinfo learned from those around the PS, who recall that “this has been the case historically” for socialist personalities who joined a government of Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007 or of Emmanuel Macron since 2017.
Who are the favorites? The head of state prepares “a surprise”declared a Macronist to Franceinfo. The fact remains that François Bayrou, the president of MoDem, remains one of the favorites for Matignon, just like the former socialist Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve. The list is completed by the resigning Minister of Partnership with the Territories, Catherine Vautrin, the resigning Minister of the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu, and the former Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian, who had been minister under François Hollande before ‘also be a minister under Emmanuel Macron. The name of Roland Lescure, former Minister of Industry, also emerged.
RN warnings. Several RN deputies, including executives Sébastien Chenu and Jean-Philippe Tanguy, successively marked their hostility to the appointment of Roland Lescure on X (formerly Twitter). “Roland Lescure? Motion of censure”wrote the spokesperson for the lepéniste group Laure Lavalette, before deleting her message.
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