The announcement of the new French government, led by Prime Minister François Bayrou, will not come before 5:00 p.m. GMT on Monday due to the national day of mourning in solidarity with the Mayotte archipelago ravaged by Cyclone Chido, the presidency announced French.
Emmanuel Macron will participate at 10:00 GMT in the minute of silence which will be recorded throughout the country, “in the main courtyard” from the Elysée Palace, she said.
Appointed on December 13, centrist leader François Bayrou wishes to form a tight and as open team as possible.
Champion of surpassing himself in politics, he would like it to include significant personalities, from the left as well as the right and the center, in order to respond to the emergencies facing the country, particularly budgetary ones.
If France fails to provide itself with a real budget and sticks only to the “special law” promulgated on Saturday, its public deficit would amount to more than 6% of GDP in 2025, far from the objective of 5% planned by the previous government, according to a study by the French Observatory of Economic Conditions (OFCE) published on Sunday.
To protect himself from censorship, which brought down his precedent, Michel Barnier and not to make the same mistakes, putting him in the hands of the National Rally, François Bayrou is trying to attract significant personalities into his government.
The names of the former Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne or the former Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin are thus mentioned to join François Bayrou's team, as is that of Xavier Bertrand, president of Hauts-de- France and figure of the right-wing Les Républicains (LR) party.
The latter, mentioned in court, is an irritant for the far-right party, especially as Marine Le Pen awaits her judgment, with possible ineligibility, in the trial of the assistants of the European Parliament.
“Who understands what François Bayrou wants to do? Apart from recycling those who made mistakes”, annoyed the vice-president of the National Rally Sébastien Chenu on Sunday on BFMTV, nevertheless recalling that the far-right party was not “not party to vote for an immediate motion of censure”.
As for Gérald Darmanin, he publicly applied for the Quai d'Orsay where the current Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Noël Barrot (Modem) would like to stay.
On the left, former socialist minister François Rebsamen, 73, announced in La Tribune on Sunday that he was “ready” to join the government, praising his long-standing “relationship of trust” with François Bayrou.
But almost nothing filters through on other personalities from the left.
The Socialist Party formally refused to participate in the government and its leader Olivier Faure left Matignon disappointed on Thursday, saying he was “dismayed by the poverty of what (was) proposed” and not ruling out censoring the brand new Prime Minister , an early ally of Emmanuel Macron.
François Bayrou begins his mission at the age of 73 with a historically low popularity rating, since 66% of people participating in the Ifop-Journal du Dimanche barometer say they are dissatisfied.
