LIVE – Reshuffle: the parties have until this afternoon to clarify their positions with François Bayrou

François Bayrou promised Thursday on France 2 news to present his government “before Christmas” and called on the parties, excluding RN and LFI, to enter, trying to attract the left by saying they were ready to “resume without suspend” the flammable pension reform, but without convincing the New Popular Front. “An open door in good faith”: without hiding his intention to rally a part of the left or to push it not to censor him, the new Prime Minister proposed to think about “a different organization” of the pension system by September.

As he tries to secure a majority despite an almost irreconcilable National Assembly, François Bayrou said “that the path exists”. “If we don’t succeed in this test, then it’s the last station before the cliff”he added.

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Appointed on Friday and cornered on all sides after a start strewn with pitfalls and controversies, the Prime Minister spoke a few hours after a summit meeting in Matignon, where he received party and parliamentary group leaders (excluding RN, UDR and LFI) and the presidents of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet and the Senate Gérard Larcher. To the officials gathered around the table, he promised a government appointment “before Christmas”even hoping “during the weekend”. And asked his interlocutors for a response on their participation in the government by Friday “at midday”to clarify the positions of everyone and in particular of the Republicans, who have still not made their choice official.