Un calendar upset? While François Bayrou continues consultations with political forces this Tuesday, after a first salvo carried out the day before, the new Prime Minister says he hopes to form a government quickly. “My deadline is this week, I hope,” he declared to the municipal council of Pau, a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, of which he intends to remain mayor.
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“The president must be there,” he nevertheless recalled. Article 8 of the Constitution stipulates that the head of the Élysée must appoint the members of the government, on the proposal of the Prime Minister. However, Emmanuel Macron's agenda is busy. The Head of State is going to Lyon this Tuesday afternoon, then he will be in Brussels from Wednesday to Thursday evening for European summits.
Emmanuel Macron also announced that he would go to Mayotte, bruised and devastated by Cyclone Chido, “in the coming days”. “Faced with this tragedy which upsets each of us, I will declare national mourning”, said on X Monday evening after a government crisis meeting the head of state, who will go “in the coming days” to the French archipelago of the Indian Ocean “in support” of the population and all those mobilized.
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If the new tenant of Matignon mentions a hoped-for deadline “this week”, one of his relatives tells TF1 and LCI that he would like to train his team, “preferably before Christmas”. In any case, François Bayrou wants to form a tight government dominated by experienced “personalities”. After the far right, the center, the socialists and the right on Monday, the new Prime Minister receives the representatives of the ecologists, the MoDem, Horizons, the independents of Liot, the communists, and the ex-LR Éric Ciotti now ally of the RN.
ALSO READ Bayrou in Matignon: the risk for LR of being swallowed by the macronieHe was keen to receive the groups of the National Assembly “in their numerical order of importance”. It is then up to them to decide on the composition of their delegation. The Prime Minister will go to the hemicycle for his first major oral presentation, where he will answer questions from deputies alone.
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