Jean-Yves Le Drian says he refused the post of prime minister

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian told the Breton weekly Le Penthièvre that he had refused the post of prime minister for which President Emmanuel Macron continued his consultations on Friday, December 13. “It was offered to me. But I refused. In two and a half years, I will be 80, that wouldn’t be serious”justified Le Drian, Thursday on the sidelines of a conference organized in Saint-Brieuc (Côtes-d'Armor) on the theme of “shifting of the world”.

Socialist president of the Brittany region from 2004 to 2017, Jean-Yves Le Drian served as Minister of Defense for President François Hollande. Rallying to Emmanuel Macron, he was then his first Minister of Foreign Affairs. He is currently his special envoy for Lebanon. President Emmanuel Macron postponed until Friday the moment to appoint a Prime Minister, and he received MoDem President François Bayrou at the Élysée in the morning for further consultations.