A final Council of Ministers then a new head of government. Emmanuel Macron promised to appoint by Thursday, and potentially as early as this Wednesday, December 10, Michel Barnier's successor at Matignon, who will be responsible for negotiating at least an agreement to avoid censorship.
Information to remember:
⇒ Last council of ministers this Wednesday for the Barnier government
⇒ Emmanuel Macron promised to appoint a new Prime Minister by Thursday
⇒ For Olivier Faure, it “cannot be François Bayrou”
For Olivier Faure, the new Prime Minister “cannot be François Bayrou”
The new Prime Minister “cannot be François Bayrou” who would embody a “continuity” of Macronism, declared this Wednesday the socialist Olivier Faure, who wants a Prime Minister “from the left”. “It cannot be François Bayrou,” said Olivier Faure on BFMTV/RMC, without commenting on possible censorship of a government led by the centrist who is the favorite to be appointed to Matignon.
Presidential: Marine Le Pen still higher in the first round, according to a survey
Marine Le Pen would obtain, depending on her opponents, between 36 and 38% of the votes in the first round of the presidential election, and Jordan Bardella barely less, according to an Ifop-Fiducial poll for The Figaro Magazine and Sud Radio published this Wednesday.
According to this poll, carried out online from December 6 to 9, therefore after the motion of censure which led to the overthrow of the Barnier government, Marine Le Pen would obtain 36% of the votes against Edouard Philippe (25%) and even 38% against Gabriel Attal ( 20%). Its score even increased by two points compared to a previous survey in September. If she were declared ineligible by the courts in the trial of the RN parliamentary assistants and could not compete, Jordan Bardella would obtain a barely lower score with 34% of the votes against Edouard Philippe (26%).
The poll assumes the presence of an LR candidate, Laurent Wauquiez, who would obtain between 6 and 8% of the votes and a left split between four candidates (Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a socialist – Olivier Faure or François Hollande -, Marine Tondelier and Fabien Roussel). In all cases, the leader of LFI obtains the best score, without however exceeding 12%. Olivier Faure caps at 5% and François Hollande at 7%. The total of the four left-wing candidates does not exceed 25%.
Last council of ministers for the Barnier government
The day after an unprecedented meeting around the president of party leaders outside the LFI and RN, Michel Barnier and his government met this Wednesday morning one last time at the Elysée – an extremely rare occurrence for a resigning team. On the menu for this Council of Ministers: a draft “special law” to ensure the continuity of the State from January. The censorship of Michel Barnier last week, barely three months after his appointment, effectively left the 2025 budget in suspense.
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This “temporary law”, the adoption of which there is little doubt, will be examined on Monday in the National Assembly, then on December 18 in the Senate. The text is reduced to its simplest expression to authorize the government to raise taxes and spend credits on the basis of the budget for the current year.
Lecornu, Bayrou, Vautrin, still in the running
The names circulating to take over from Michel Barnier come from the central bloc, like that of François Bayrou, received again Tuesday morning at the Elysée. Macronist ministers Sébastien Lecornu and Catherine Vautrin are also cited, as are former minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, who declined according to Macronist sources, or right-wing officials such as the mayor of Troyes François Baroin.
A new Prime Minister will be named by Thursday, according to Emmanuel Macron
Tuesday, in front of the leaders of the communists, socialists, ecologists, the presidential camp and the Les Républicains party, Emmanuel Macron promised to appoint his next Prime Minister “within 48 hours”. Several relatives are counting on a choice this Wednesday evening. It is up to the new tenant of Matignon to negotiate with these parties a participation in the government, or their support for certain texts including the budget, or even, at a minimum, a “non-censorship” agreement. Only then will he put together his team.
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If he was able to note the absence of appetite for a “government of national unity”, the president hopes to have found a form of consensus towards a non-censorship agreement which would allow the future government to survive longer than that, ephemeral, by Michel Barnier.
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