In reaction to the appointment of François Bayrou as new Prime Minister, the Republicans affirmed, this Friday, December 13, that their possible participation in the government will depend on the “project” presented by the latter.
The Republicans conditioned, this Friday, December 13, their participation in the government on the “project” that the new Prime Minister François Bayrou will present to them, recognizing that their choice is less “easy” than with his predecessor Michel Barnier.
“It is then that we can decide on possible participation,” said the group’s boss Laurent Wauquiez, whose positions achieved “consensus among the deputies who spoke” during a video meeting after the appointment from François Bayrou to Matignon, they indicated.
The boss of the right-wing deputies warned that the choice to enter the new government “is not easy and not obvious, unlike September with Michel Barnier”, from the ranks of LR and who had recruited 16 of his ministers in the ranks of his party.
A need for clarity
On X, Laurent Wauquiez insisted on the “spirit of responsibility” of the Republicans “to find solutions and avoid blocking the country”. “Beyond the choice of Prime Minister, what matters is what to do, what policy? Our country needs clarity,” he insisted.
The boss of the LR group also estimated that the National Rally and the New Popular Front had “plunged France into instability”.
“We are now waiting for the Prime Minister to present his project to us. It is based on this project that we will decide together on possible participation,” declared Laurent Wauquiez on X.
Speak “with one voice”
After the differences that have emerged in recent days within the Republicans on their participation in the next government, the head of the deputies called for speaking “with one voice”, specifying that he had previously spoken with the resigning Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau and Mathieu Darnaud, the head of the LR senators.
During their conversation, Bruno Retailleau informed the boss of the LR deputies that he would be received on Friday evening in Matignon by the new Prime Minister, the entourage of the Haute-Loire deputy told AFP.
After the fall of Michel Barnier, the resigning Minister of the Interior wanted to remain in government, while warning that the right “will not be able to make any compromise with the left”. Bruno Retailleau also exchanged a few words last Saturday with François Bayrou, on the sidelines of the Notre-Dame reopening ceremony.
Former President Nicolas Sarkozy, who spoke last Sunday with Emmanuel Macron at the Elysée, said he was opposed to the nomination of François Bayrou, who preferred to support François Hollande against him in 2012, they said. indicated different sources.
