The leader of France’s far-right National Union (RN) party, Jordan Bardella, said on Friday that his party has no immediate plans to express no confidence in the new French Prime Minister, Francois Bayrou. President Emmanuel Macron appointed him to the position on Friday, TASR took the information from AFP and Reuters.
“The new prime minister must realize that he does not have a majority in the parliament,” Bardella pointed out about the distribution of forces in the National Assembly. “Our red lines remain in force,” he added.
RN founder and two-time presidential candidate Marine Le Pen said after the appointment of the new prime minister that Bayrou should listen to the opposition parties and draw up a meaningful budget for 2025. only to deadlock and failure,” Le Pen said on the X social network.
Some left-wing parties criticized the nomination of the new prime minister
Left-wing parties were also critical of Bayrou’s nomination. Mathilde Panotová from Unyielding France (LFI) indicated that LFI MPs will not express confidence in the Prime Minister.
The leader of the Greens, Marine Tondelierová, called the appointment “bad street theater”. If the Prime Minister promotes the right-wing policies of Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau, her party will not express confidence in the government.
According to former prime minister Gabriel Attal of the Obrodo party founded by President Macron, the appointment of Bayrou will bring “important stability”. Deputies of Oborda will support the prime minister in the parliament.
Bayrou is the founder and chairman of the centrist Democratic Movement (MoDem). In 2002, 2007 and 2012, he ran unsuccessfully in the presidential elections. He also served as the French Minister of Education and Minister of Justice. Between 1999 and 2002 he was a member of the European Parliament.
In the French parliament, after early elections, the left, Macron’s centrists, conservatives and the far-right RN are relatively evenly represented. The president was therefore under great pressure to appoint a government that could gain the confidence of the parliament and adopt the state budget for next year. Macron has already announced a special law on the budget, which should enable the normal functioning of the state from the beginning of next year.
