LIVE – Who to be minister? François Bayrou invites party leaders to Matignon, LFI declines the invitation

Mission to form a government. The new Prime Minister François Bayrou has invited, starting this Monday, December 16, the country’s political forces. With one goal, that of finding a viable solution to form a government capable of passing, without a majority, a draft budget. The long-time ally of Emmanuel Macron, who intends to be “a Prime Minister of full exercise and complementarity” with the president, must quickly put together a government team that can bring forward a finance bill for 2025, the last one having been frozen by the censorship of the previous government.

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Government balances and the 2025 budget will be at the heart of the meetings that François Bayrou will hold on Monday and Tuesday with the parliamentary groups, which will be received “in their order of importance” digital at the National Assembly. Starting Monday at 9 a.m. with the president of the National Rally group of deputies, Marine Le Pen, who represents 124 elected officials, and the president of the party, Jordan Bardella. The latter had deplored not having been received soon enough by former Prime Minister Michel Barnier, who himself had assured that he had offered to receive them upon his arrival.

François Bayrou, who made a point of personally calling each group leader, will then speak with Gabriel Attal, who is both the leader of the Macronist deputies Ensemble pour la République (EPR, 93 elected), and the president of the party Renaissance. The representatives of the Socialist Party and the right will follow, before the other groups on Tuesday. La France insoumise refuses for the moment to meet him, announced the leader of the deputies Mathilde Panot, by “fear” according to Jean-Luc Mélenchon “let it all be a comedy again.”