This appointment comes three days after an unprecedented meeting of party leaders, excluding Rassemblement national and La France insoumise, under the aegis of the head of state. Where the contours of a “democratic cooperation agreement“, according to the formula of Mr. Bayrou on Tuesday: the government would undertake not to use 49.3 to impose its laws, the opponents not to censor it, Emmanuel Macron evoking for his part his intention not to dissolve the new law. National Assembly. According to the French Constitution, it could not in any case proceed to a new dissolution before, at a minimum, July 7, 2025.
The new Prime Minister, who “imposed itself” as “the most consensual“, “will have the mission to dialogue“with these same parties, communists on the right,”in order to find the conditions of stability and action“, declared the president’s entourage. Even if the centrist has regularly distilled criticisms against the politics – too right – and the practice of power – too personal – of his ally, it will therefore not be a cohabitation, like the The left has been demanding it since the legislative elections.
As expected, the New Popular Front will not participate in this government. But he is divided on the degree of criticism towards François Bayrou. LFI will thus file a motion of censure as soon as possible, its coordinator Manuel Bompard describing this choice as “new arm of honor for democracy“.
As a price for their non-censorship, the socialists, for their part, ask François Bayrou to commit to renouncing 49.3 and to carry out a “reorientation of government policy“The communists expressed a similar position.”There is no such thing as non-censorship“, warned on TF1 Olivier Faure, boss of the PS, who refuses that the RN be “the arbiter of elegance“.
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