No announcement is expected before 6:00 p.m. Monday, announced theElysiumwithout specifying whether the composition of the government would be known at that time.
Monday was declared a day of national mourning by the president Emmanuel Macron pour Mayotte devastated by the Cyclone Desire.
A minute of silence must be observed throughout the country at 11:00 a.m. in tribute to the victims of the disaster, whose provisional toll stands at 35 dead and 2,500 injured.
Very moved, the MP (LIOT) from Mayotte, Estelle Youssouffa said she was “indignant” on Monday that “the little Parisian disturbance continues” on this day of mourning, while the population of Mayotte “has no water, has not seen help”. “It’s so contemptuous, so serious, so mediocre, that we no longer have the words,” she declared on France Inter.
If the announcement were to be further delayed, the government would not be known until Tuesday December 24, Christmas Eve and the start of the end-of-year holiday break.
From appointments of Prime Ministers to reshuffles, the political class has become accustomed to having to wait as the executive's timetables are adjusted.
“This duration of this casting in relation to the country's emergencies, the crises we are going through, it is unbearable,” criticized the RN deputy Jean-Philippe Tanguy on BFMTV-RMC, denouncing “always the same sketch”.
The centrist leader, 73, fourth Prime Minister in 2024, hopes to compose a government of heavyweights, able to avoid censorship, with personalities from the right, the center and the left.
His entourage announced on Sunday that the Prime Minister was “making the final adjustments to his government”. Several telephone conversations with Emmanuel Macron took place on Sunday, as well as an interview in the evening at the Élysée.
“This is progressing. (…) The structuring of the major ministerial centers is fixed”, assured the president of the MoDem deputies during the weekend, Marc Fesneauclose to François Bayrouconfirming that the government's full list should be presented “in one go” and “before Christmas”.
But the composition of a government responds to a subtle dosage which must in particular respect political balances, parity between men and women, and the susceptibilities of people. Above all, ministers will have to urgently prepare a budget for 2025, under pressure from oppositions and the financial markets.
The names of the former Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne or the former Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin are 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, cited for Justice, is an irritant for the National Rally, which he has fought for a long time. Especially since Marine Le Pen awaits his judgment, with possible ineligibility, in the trial of the assistants of the European Parliament.
“It’s a bad sign,” grated Jean-Philippe Tanguynevertheless repeating that the entry of Xavier Bertrand into the government would not lead to immediate censorship of the far-right party.
As for Gérald Darmanin, ex-LR rallied to the macronie, he publicly applied for the Quai d'Orsay where the current Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Noel Barrot (MoDem) would like to stay.
On the left, the former socialist minister François Rebsamen73, announced 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 who could be tempted to join François Bayrou.
