François Bayrou, one of Emmanuel Macron’s possible choices for Matignon, will be received Friday at 8:30 a.m. at the Elysée, we learned from sources close to the consultations.
The president of Modem already spoke on the phone Thursday evening with Emmanuel Macron who promised to appoint his new Prime Minister Friday morning.
At this stage, we do not know whether Emmanuel Macron receives François Bayrou, 73, to announce his appointment to the post of Prime Minister or, on the contrary, explain to him the reasons for not being appointed again.
Returning from a whirlwind visit to Poland, having barely arrived on French soil, Emmanuel Macron disappointed expectations on Thursday evening and announced that the appointment of the new host of Matignon to succeed Michel Barnier would only take place this Friday.
The 48-hour deadline that he himself set last Tuesday before the party leaders will therefore not have been met.
