François Bayrou still hoped, on the evening of Sunday December 22, to land a final and successful version of his government. And thus respect its commitment to provide the country with a government “before Christmas”. This day was to end a first sequence in Matignon punctuated by political missteps for the 73-year-old Béarnais. But the Bayrou government's announcement has once again been postponed.
Emmanuel Macron cultivates an apparent detachment towards the difficulties encountered by his Prime Minister in forming this “general interest government” excluding the National Rally (RN) and La France Insoumise (LFI). When François Bayrou tried to rally everyone to his cause, the President of the Republic flew on December 18 successively to Brussels, Mayotte, Djibouti and Ethiopia… He only returned to Paris on Sunday, at dawn.
Certainly, the two heads of the executive were able to communicate remotely. The Head of State had also demanded proposals from François Bayrou even before the end of the consultations carried out for four days in a row in Matignon.
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