The new government is long overdue. François Bayrou was received again at the Elysée by Emmanuel Macron, Wednesday December 17 in the afternoon, franceinfo learned from the entourage of the Head of State. The new Prime Minister had already discussed with him on Tuesday about the composition of the future government. “It seems to me that the exchanges are still very advanced”estimated the president of the MoDem deputies, Marc Fesneau, very close to the centrist. Follow the political day in our live stream.
The parade of parties continued at Matignon. François Bayrou continued to consult the parliamentary groups on Wednesday. He received representatives of the Radical Party and Eric Ciotti’s UDR party in the morning, then he continued with senators from the Macronist group at 2:30 p.m. and those from the centrist RDSE group at 3:30 p.m.
The conditions “are not met for the moment” for the presence of LR ministers, according to Bruno Retailleau. The resigning Minister of the Interior explained on BFMTV that his party, Les Républicains, “will try to see in the coming days if a certain number of obstacles are removed”. “It would be a shame if the government moved to the left while France is to the right”warned Bruno Retailleau, who met the Prime Minister for an hour in the morning.
The RN threatens censorship. The vice-president of the National Rally, Sébastien Chenu, threatened François Bayrou with censorship “sooner or later” if the latter “does not take into account the errors that Michel Barnier may have made, both in form and in substance” in preparing its budget for 2025.
The special bill definitively passed in Parliament. The budgetary text submitted urgently after the censorship of the Barnier government will be able to be promulgated at the last minute before December 31, authorizing the executive to levy taxes and borrow to finance the State and Social Security. The senators adopted it unanimously, without modifying it on Wednesday afternoon. The National Assembly had already approved it unanimously on Monday.
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