The 35 new ministers of the Bayrou government are meeting this Friday for the first time in the Council of Ministers, around the Prime Minister and the President of the Republic.
If the official agenda is light, they should discuss the 2025 budget bill, the general policy speech or even the situation in Mayotte, priorities for their action. Follow the latest information.
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“THERE IS A WAY”
“There is a path, it is even better defined than we believe” to emerge from political instability, said François Bayrou on Friday during the traditional government breakfast at Place Beauvau marking the new year, his entourage reported .
“The French do not want this period of instability to continue. If we are united, we will be able to remove a certain number of obstacles before us,” declared the Prime Minister, who went on foot with his team at the Elysée for its first Council of Ministers and the first of the year. “My responsibility is for this team to be united and courageous,” he added.
Hello and welcome to this live, we will follow the latest political news together, while the Prime Council of Ministers of the Bayrou government is being held this Friday, January 3 at the Elysée.
A breakfast in Beauvau then a first Council of Ministers at the Elysée to launch their work. This Friday morning, the 35 ministers of the Bayrou government will meet for their first moments together. They are first expected at the Ministry of the Interior for the traditional back-to-school breakfast organized by the tenant of Beauvau, then they will go to the presidential palace where they are expected at 10 a.m. for their first Council of Ministers.
The latter’s agenda is not really prolific: the only element indicated is the study of a decree “transferring the missions of the Directorate of Nuclear Defense and Security Expertise to the Minister of Defense “. Not really among the government’s priorities. “It’s the installation, the moment will be above all political”, summarizes a ministerial source from AFP. But other subjects should be addressed and placed among the government’s priorities. Starting with the draft budget. François Bayrou discussed it at length on Thursday, with ministers invited to Matignon then during a lunch at the Élysée with Emmanuel Macron.
-For their part, the Ministers of the Economy, Éric Lombard, and of Public Accounts, Amélie de Montchalin, initiated last Monday “the first contacts” with the political forces represented in Parliament in order to involve them in the preparation of the 2025 budget, meetings planned until January 14, the date of François Bayrou’s general policy speech before Parliament.
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The Council of Ministers this Friday morning will also make it possible to understand the broad outlines of the Prime Minister’s general policy declaration. The objective at the end of this will be not to be censored by the opposition, the left already threatening to table and vote on a motion of censure. The new government “must be able to take a path of compromise in order to act”France must “continues to be attractive”, “work and innovate more”, “continues to create jobs” et “ensures its growth by maintaining its finances”also warned Emmanuel Macron in his wishes to the French.
Among the government’s short-term priorities, which could be addressed this Friday, also include the situation of farmers – some unions are threatening to organize occasional blockades for lack of meeting the Prime Minister -, and the reconstruction of Mayotte, even if the project “emergency” law for Mayotte will not be on the menu of this Council of Ministers, as initially promised. It will be presented next week, even if this postponement should not have an impact on its examination by Parliament, which resumes its activities on January 13.
