François Bayrou led a first series of consultations with political forces on Monday in order to compose his government.
Emmanuel Macron is expecting a government proposal this Tuesday, the political service of TF1/LCI learned.
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EMMANUEL MACRON EXPECTS A GOVERNMENT PROPOSAL TODAY
The President of the Republic asked Prime Minister François Bayrou for a government proposal today, Emmanuel Macron’s entourage told TF1-LCI, confirming information from Politico.
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YAËL BRAUN-PIVET “WOULD HAVE PREFERRED THE PRIME MINISTER TO TAKE THE PLANE TO MAYOTTE”
Yaël Braun-Pivet “would have preferred that the Prime Minister took the plane to Mayotte” rather than to Pau, she declared on franceinfo. Monday evening, François Bayrou went to the city of which he is mayor to attend the municipal council, and participated by videoconference in the interministerial crisis unit in Mayotte.
A situation which could recur, since the head of government wishes to retain his position on a voluntary basis at the town hall of Pau. Yaël Braun-Pivet says she is “against the accumulation of mandates”. “I think we should not put this subject back on the table,” she insists. “Now is really not the time.”
NICOLAS DARAGON SUR LCI: “NOT A CASTING SUBJECT”
“The subject is to build a budget for France, not a subject of casting” the next government, declares on LCI Nicolas Daragon, resigning Minister of Daily Security, from the Republicans. “Will I be part of this or that team? I am also a local elected official, mayor of Valencia, I was very happy to contribute to the government on everyday issues. But before asking the question of casting, we must ask ourselves the question of detailed measurements.”
EMMANUEL MACRON EXPECTS A GOVERNMENT PROPOSAL TODAY
The President of the Republic asked Prime Minister François Bayrou for a government proposal today, Emmanuel Macron’s entourage told TF1-LCI, confirming information from Politico.
HEAD OF GOVERNMENT… AND MAYOR OF PAU
The new Prime Minister François Bayrou attended the municipal council of Pau, the city of which he is mayor, on Monday evening. We have to go back to 1995, and Alain Juppé, to find traces of a head of government combining this function with that of mayor of a city.
François Bayrou Prime Minister… and Mayor of PauSource : TF1 Info
LAURE LAVALETTE (RN) ON TF1: “WE WILL BE VERY ATTENTIVE”
The RN is not critical of François Bayrou, four days after his appointment to Matignon. “It hasn’t started,” explains RN MP Laure Lavalette on TF1. “We will be very attentive and a constructive opposition. We are ready to censor a budget which would not index pensions to inflation. Michel Barnier acted as if we did not exist. A priori, François Bayrou has a very different. The new government? It’s not the casting that matters, it’s the script.”
BAYROU IN PAU: “A LITTLE LUNAR”
François Bayrou’s “decision” to participate in the Pau municipal council at the same time as a crisis meeting on Mayotte is “a bit lunar”, deplores Laure Lavalette, RN deputy, on TF1. “He could have shifted it. The timing is obviously not great.”
LAURE LAVALETTE ON TF1
RN MP Laure Lavalette is the guest of “Bonjour! La Matinale TF1” at 7:35 a.m.
CUMULATION OF MANDATES: FRANÇOIS BAYROU REOPENS THE DEBATE
Monday, December 16, François Bayrou attracted strong criticism by choosing to go to Pau, the city of which he is mayor, and not to the meeting in Paris of the crisis unit on the devastated archipelago, a meeting which he followed from a distance. From Pau, the new Prime Minister indicated that he wanted to reverse the ban on multiple mandates for parliamentarians and confirmed his intention to remain at the head of the municipality, attracting criticism.
THE FRENCH IN FAVOR OF THE END OF THE FIFTH REPUBLIC
While François Bayrou continues his consultations to try to compose his government, an Odoxa – Mascaret political barometer reveals the state of mind of the French. They say they are mostly in favor of the end of the Fifth Republic, as well as a single presidential vote so that a head of state no longer has the right to represent himself.
ON FRANÇOIS BAYROU’S PROGRAM THIS TUESDAY
Second day of interviews. François Bayrou will continue today his consultations with political forces to form a government likely to last and take his first major oral in the Assembly by answering, alone, questions from deputies.
After the far right, the center, the socialists and the right yesterday, the new Prime Minister will receive representatives of the ecologists, the MoDem, Horizons, the independents of Liot, the communists as well as the ex-LR Eric Ciotti , now allied with the RN.
A GOVERNMENT “THIS WEEK”?
The Prime Minister indicated that he wanted to form his government ideally “this week”. A timetable indicated after a first series of consultations with political forces, but which it is not sure of being able to keep.
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Welcome to this live broadcast dedicated to the latest political news in France. François Bayrou, who succeeds Michel Barnier as Prime Minister, held several consultations this Monday, and wishes to announce his government team “this week”. Follow here, throughout the day, the latest news.
Will we know the names of the next ministers by Sunday? In any case, this is François Bayrou’s wish. At the end of the Pau Municipal Council, to which he attended as mayor, the Prime Minister indicated that he wished to form his government ideally “this week” . A decision taken after a first series of consultations with political forces. “My deadline is this week, I hope. But the president must be there.” said François Bayrou.
Emmanuel Macron goes to Lyon on Tuesday afternoon, then from Wednesday afternoon to Thursday evening to Brussels for European summits. He also announced that he would go “in the coming days” in Mayotte. Time is running out because this government will have to bring a new budget for 2025, the previous project having been interrupted by censorship, while the deficit worsens and the rating agencies frown.
François Bayrou, who begins his lease in Matignon with the lowest level of confidence (40%) for a Prime Minister since 2017, according to a BVA questions from deputies, resigning ministers are not authorized to do so.
Defining itself as “a Prime Minister of full exercise and complementarity” with the head of state, he wishes to form a tight government dominated by experienced “personalities”. He chose close friends for his office, with Nicolas Pernot as director, who headed the services of the city of Pau.
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