French President Emmanuel Macron has appointed the government of centrist Prime Minister Francois Bayrou. He presented the names of the members of the fourth cabinet within one year on Monday evening general secretary of the Elysee Palace, Alexis Kohler. According to him, the Minister of the Interior remains in his post Bruno Retailleau, head of the Department of Diplomacy Jean-Noel Barrot and elected minister Sébastien Lecornu. TASR informs about it according to the report of the AFP agency.
The new government will also two former prime ministers – Manuel Valls will return to the post of Minister for Overseas Territories and Elisabeth Borneová will be the Minister of Education. Former Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin will become the Minister of Justice. Minister of Finance will be banker Eric Lombard.
Seventy-three-year-old Prime Minister Bayrou he was appointed on December 13 and he wanted his government to be introduced last weekend, or before Christmas. According to Reuters, he has been trying for the last almost ten days form a government which would be able to survive a potential vote of no confidence initiated by the extreme right and the left. According to the French media, his priority will be to secure the budget for next year.
The widely expected presentation of the cabinet was postponed on Sunday, and on Monday the Elysee Palace informed that it would not be presented until Monday evening from due to the day of mourning in memory of the victims of tropical cyclone Chidowhich devastated the island of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean. Politico magazine writes that even before the official presentation, several politicians and commentators in France they criticized the composition of the cabinet for that gives way to some demands of the extreme right.
According to AFP, French politics found itself in stalemate, since Macron announced in the summer early parliamentary electionsafter which none of the political parties did not win a majority in the National Assembly.
In addition, the country plunged into further political chaos when at the beginning of December, MPs expressed a vote of no confidence in Michel Barnier’s government, AFP wrote. This was because Barnier used his power to push through a bill on the social security budget without a vote in parliament. It happened like that at all the shortest serving prime minister per period of the French Fifth Republicwhich has existed since 1958.
