French President Emmanuel Macron will appoint a new prime minister on Friday morning, who will have the difficult task of seeking an agreement to survive longer than the previous government and pass a budget, in a fractured political landscape.
Emannuel Macron, to everyone’s surprise, dissolved the National Assembly in June, after his camp’s defeat in the European elections against the far right. The early legislative elections resulted in an Assembly fragmented into three blocs (alliance of left, Macronists and right, extreme right), without an absolute majority.
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Coming from the right, the Prime Minister and former European Commissioner Michel Barnier, in office for only three months, was forced to resign on December 5, after a historic vote of censure in the Assembly.
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A nomination expected first for Thursday
“The statement appointing the Prime Minister will be published tomorrow (Friday) morning,” said the president’s entourage Thursday evening, when the head of state had just landed near Paris, returning from a visit to Poland.
Emmanuel Macron, whose confidence rating reaches only 21% according to an Elabe poll, had initially promised to appoint the head of government by Thursday at the latest. An oath made to the leaders of parties ranging from the Communist Party to the right-wing party Les Républicains (LR), gathered Tuesday at the Elysée in search of compromise, in the absence of the far right and the radical left .
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A waltz of names
What name to extricate the country from an unprecedented political crisis? François Bayrou, the faithful centrist ally who always bides his time and seems to be the favorite this time? Or the former Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, to reward the pledges given by the Socialist Party (PS)?
Unless another suitor is preferred to these two tenors.
Thursday afternoon, several deputies from the far-right National Rally (RN) party successively marked on the social network Wednesday.
“Non-censorship pact”
The head of state has tried to ensure in recent days that the future executive will benefit from a “non-censorship pact” notably from the Socialist Party, and even from the Ecologists.
François Bayrou has long proposed to the president 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 Thursday.
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