The new Prime Minister, François Bayrou, who is groping in an uncertain political environment, is already participating in his first interministerial crisis meeting, while Mayotte is hit by an extremely violent cyclone.
17:12 – For Lucie Castets, “we must not dramatize the opposition differences on the left”
END OF LIVE – “We must not dramatize the differences between the opposition on the left”, believes Lucie Castets on LCI. “The question of whether or not we should censor François Bayrou a priori does not seem to me to be the best question,” assures the senior civil servant, once proposed by the NFP as a candidate for the post of Prime Minister this summer. And added: “In the end, they say one common thing: we will censure the government if it does not put in place the necessary conditions to change the policy that is being pursued.”
4:37 p.m. – Interministerial crisis meeting this evening in Mayotte
“Faced with the seriousness of the situation in Mayotte”, François Bayrou will participate in an interministerial crisis meeting this evening, announced Matignon. In addition to France's budget and the fragmented National Assembly, the new Prime Minister is dealing with his first crisis. Already two deaths have been reported, and 15,000 homes are without electricity, while winds of up to 220 km/h hit the archipelago. A “catastrophic” situation according to local elected officials. Find details on the situation here.
15:58 – Valérie Pécresse criticizes the “heavy consequence of RN-NFP censorship”
In reaction to the downgrading of France's sovereign rating by Moody's, Valérie Pécresse castigated the “heavy consequence of the RN-NFP censorship” in a post on “order in the accounts and initiate a reduction in spending”, she maintained.
15:02 – The Democratic and Republican Left group calls for a vote of confidence
Can François Bayrou survive such a divided national assembly? Stéphane Peu, deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis from the Democratic and Republican Left group, asked on Europe 1 on Saturday that the Prime Minister submit to a vote of confidence at the end of his future general policy speech. One way to determine whether it will be censored or not, maintains the elected official.
2:54 p.m. – Jean-Luc Mélenchon in interview on M6 on Sunday
Jean-Luc Mélenchon will be the guest on the M6 show “Le 19h45” on Sunday December 15, two days after the appointment of François Bayrou as Prime Minister. A speech to undoubtedly recall the commitments LFI made to this appointment: censorship.
14:01 – “Bayrou will be censored, Macron must go”, supports LFI
“Bayrou will be censored, Macron must go. We are ready”, reaffirmed Mathilde Panot before the Representative Assembly of the Insoumis. The head of the LFI deputies launched the work of the Assembly, which is working today on two subjects: “Be ready to govern”, and “Prepare the municipal elections to present lists in the greatest number of municipalities “.
11:51 – What do the polls say about the appointment of François Bayrou?
According to a L'Opinion en direct survey carried out by the Elabe institute for BFMTV, 67% of French people do not believe in a return to political stability with the future government. Barely a third of respondents believe that the arrival of François Bayrou at Matignon is a “good thing”, compared to two in five French people who think the opposite.
11:39 – François Bayrou facing “the collapse of National Education”
François Bayrou will have to “look at reality” and not govern “on memories”, warned on Franceinfo Sophie Vénétitay, general secretary of Snes-FSU. She believes that the Prime Minister will have to “respond” to “the collapse of National Education”: “There are students who have not had lessons in certain disciplines since the start of the year”, she said. -she lamented. And added: “We realize that, in recent days, there are still rectorates who were no longer able to pay teachers.”
“François Bayrou will have to face a major challenge,” she warned.
11:08 – “I’m starting to have censorship preconceptions,” says Marine Tondelier
For Marine Tondelier, it is clear: “we take the same ones and we start again”. At the microphone of France Inter this morning, the national secretary of the Ecologists returned to the “incredible” appointment of François Bayrou to the post of Prime Minister. “I am not firmly in favor of a priori censorship but I am starting to have preconceptions of censorship,” she said. The new tenant of Matignon “has his own censorship in his hands”, she added, recalling that environmentalists will base their decision on the policies carried out by François Bayrou and on his methods. The use of 49.3 remains a red line for the Green party.
10:39 – First challenge: the downgrading of France's rating by Moody's
Barely in office, François Bayrou is already faced with the decision of the rating agency Moody's to downgrade France's sovereign rating by one notch. The move “reflects our view that the country’s public finances will be significantly weakened over the coming years,” due to “political fragmentation that is more likely to prevent meaningful fiscal consolidation.” Enough to remind the new Prime Minister of “the Himalayas that stand” before him, as he declared during his handover of power on Friday.
The rating is now Aa3 with stable outlook, compared to Aa2 with negative outlook previously established in October.
10:16 – The affair of the MoDem European parliamentary assistants still a threat for Bayrou
The new Prime Minister begins his mandate with a myriad of political and legal obstacles, recalls Franceinfo. François Bayrou is still being prosecuted in the case of the MoDem European parliamentary assistants. Although he was acquitted in February, the prosecution appealed. He and ten other people are accused of having diverted European funds in order to pay parliamentary assistants actually working for the party. Françoi Bayrou has always denied the existence of such a “system”.
09:36 – The LRs are waiting to know the Bayrou project to get involved or not
After a group meeting, the deputies of the Republican Right did not decide on participation, or not, in the Bayrou government. They are waiting for him to “explain his project”, one of the participants told BFMTV. “It is then that we will be able to decide on a possible participation”, affirmed the boss of the group Laurent Wauquiez, whose positions would have achieved “consensus among the deputies who spoke”.
09:27 – Gabriel Attal believes that François Bayrou is “the right person at the right time, in the right place”
The former prime minister welcomed the arrival of François Bayrou at Matignon: “He has a sense of the general interest deeply rooted in him”, wishing him “full success”. Concerning the choice of this new Prime Minister, he believes that all political organizations must “be behind him, without trying to pull the rug out for themselves”. Speaking from the Colmar Christmas market, he added that we should “not rule out a little Christmas magic for us to get there”.
09:23 – The conditions of the PS for not voting for censorship
During his interview with TF1, Olivier Faure stood out from his LFI allies and set out the three conditions that the new Prime Minister must respect if he wishes not to see the Socialists vote for a motion of censure against him . The first: that the French be heard and their expectations respected, particularly on issues such as pensions and access to healthcare. Olivier Faure indicates that the “method” must also change, understanding that François Bayrou will have to refrain from drawing the famous 49.3 and favor “compromises text by text”. Finally, the National Rally must no longer be “the arbiter of elegance”.
09:16 – For Manuel Bompard, “most of the NFP deputies” will vote for censure
On the set of BFMTV, the boss of the rebels said he was convinced: “most of the deputies of the New Popular Front will vote” on a motion of censure tabled at the end of the general policy speech of the new Prime Minister. And Manuel Bompard predicts: François Bayrou “will not give any of the essential markers to allow the New Popular Front to find itself in its politics.”
François Bayrou was appointed Prime Minister this Friday, December 13. But the appointment was made with pain: long favorite, the boss of MoDem was first informed that he was removed from Matignon early in the morning according to information from France Télévisions and Le Monde, after a long heated interview with Emmanuel Macron. He finally established himself as the best candidate for Matignon during a second meeting, an hour before the nomination.
François Bayrou must now appoint a government capable of resisting a motion of censure by ensuring the support of the central bloc, the right and part of the left (PS, Ecologist, PCF) since Emmanuel Macron no longer wants that the government depends on the RN. For now, only LFI promises to censor the Prime Minister and his future government. The other left-wing forces are not announcing “a priori” censorship, but are not ruling out firmly opposing the government. Still, the boss of MoDem would have had an “aside deemed positive” with Olivier Faure. The RN remains in its position which consists of giving a chance, but not renouncing censorship.
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