The two men had already spoken on the telephone during the evening of Thursday.
A near outcome? As part of the consultations led by Emmanuel Macron to appoint the next Prime Minister, François Bayrou was received this Friday at 8:30 a.m. by the Head of State at the Élysée. He left the presidential palace around 10:15 a.m., after an interview lasting 1 hour 45 minutes.
The day before, the two men had already spoken on the phone in the evening. Emmanuel Macron, for his part, promised to appoint the new head of his government this Friday morning.
A name that divides
In recent days, the President of the Republic has tried to ensure that the future executive would benefit from a “non-censorship pact” notably from the Socialist Party, or even the Ecologists.
François Bayrou has for a long time been proposing to the Head of State a government of key figures capable of convincing enough deputies, without waiting for a formal agreement between party leaders.
The first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure publicly refused the Bayrou option on Wednesday, pleading for a left-wing Prime Minister.
“The French want a little enthusiasm, momentum, breath, something new,” launched the boss of the Ecologists Marine Tondelier on France 2 on Thursday, calling on Emmanuel Macron “to get out of his comfort zone”.
She rejected those who embody the “past” in her eyes: François Bayrou but also the ex-socialist Bernard Cazeneuve, whom the president had formally consulted in September without however naming him.
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