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Emmanuel Macron appoints François Bayrou as prime minister
The centrist François Bayrou succeeds Michel Barnier at Matignon. He will have to form a government without a majority bloc.
The leader of the centrist Democratic Movement (MoDem), François Bayrou.
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French President Emmanuel Macron named centrist François Bayrou as prime minister on Friday after long consultations to find a successor to Michel Barnier, overthrown by deputies last week, the Élysée announced.
“The President of the Republic has named Mr. François Bayrou prime minister, and tasked him with forming a government,” according to a press release from the Élysée. The boss of the MoDem, first ally of the Head of State and figure of the center, will have the heavy task of forming a government capable of surviving the threat of censorship from a National Assembly without a majority bloc, and of having a budget adopted France is currently deprived for 2025.
Motion of censure
The leader of the rebellious deputies Mathilde Panot announced Friday that her party would vote in the National Assembly to censure François Bayrou, in accordance with what LFI had promised in the event of the appointment of a prime minister not from the New Popular Front.
“Two choices will be available to MPs: support for saving Macron or censorship. We have done ours,” wrote Mathilde Panot on
«Pas de censure a priori», Bardella assured
“There will be no a priori censorship,” declared the president of the National Rally Jordan Bardella on Friday, a few minutes after the appointment of Prime Minister François Bayrou by the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron.
“There will be no a priori censorship. Our a priori censorship would have been initiated against a personality from the left and from the extreme left. We had indicated that we were ready not to censor a priori a personality or a profile that came from the right and the center,” Mr. Bardella explained to the press.
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