Busy schedule for Christmas Eve. The ministers of François Bayrou's government take office on Tuesday, December 24, during transfers of power which must specify the Prime Minister's roadmap. “I am convinced that the action that I define before you and the government team will ensure that we will not be censored”declared the centrist leader on Monday evening on the BFMTV channel a few hours after the presentation of his government. From 9 a.m., a handover took place between Geneviève Darrieussecq and Catherine Vautrin and Yannick Neuder at the Ministry of Health. The two former Prime Ministers Elisabeth Borne, appointed to Education, and Manuel Valls, to Overseas Territories, will be particularly scrutinized, as will another returnee, Gérald Darmanin, who will occupy the Justice portfolio. Follow our live stream.
“Our endemic evil, the deficit”. On the Bercy side, the new Minister of the Economy Eric Lombard took office on Monday evening, replacing Antoine Armand. The former director of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, presented by François Bayrou as a man of the left, immediately called for “treat our endemic illness, the deficit”. This will be the first challenge for the Bayrou team: to pass a budget for 2025 in the National Assembly, the same place where on December 4 his predecessor Michel Barnier was overthrown by a motion of censure.
The general policy statement. François Bayrou, who will deliver his general policy declaration on January 14, declared Monday evening that he would not ask for confidence in the Assembly. “In the wake of this general policy declaration, there will be a sort of vote of confidence because there will probably be a motion of censure”argued the Prime Minister, who “respects the fact that political forces do not want to be assimilated against their will into government policy”.
Many reactions. The oppositions were very harsh with the new government, notably accusing the Prime Minister of recycling personalities who had previously failed. La France insoumise has already announced its intention to table a motion of censure. But the National Rally, the largest group in the Assembly, has made it known that it will not censor the new government a priori. A government of “extreme right” shaped like “provocation”for his part judged the boss of the Socialist Party Olivier Faure. On the side of the Republicans, who remain in government, Laurent Wauquiez spoke of support “very demanding” to François Bayrou who could be “removed” depending on the heading displayed.
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