The French president, Emmanuel Macronmet early this Friday with the centrist leader François Bayrou just hours before he announces the appointment of a new prime minister. Bayrou, one of the favorites to head the next Government, already had a telephone conversation with Macron last night, according to sources close to the discussions cited by local media.
The historic centrist leader and firm ally of Macron, of 73 yearsarrived at the Elysée Palace at 8:30 a.m. for the meeting, which triggered speculation about whether he will be the man the president entrusts with forming a new Executive.
Macron plans to announce the new prime minister this morning as announced by the Elysée late yesterday afternoon, shortly after the president’s arrival from a short work visit to Poland. With this, Macron exceeded the within 48 hours that he himself had announced last Tuesday to the leaders of several political parties to appoint the new head of the Government.
With this appointment, the French president seeks to put an end to the political crisis opened last day 4 when the Conservative Executive Michel Barnier was brought down by a motion of censure supported by the four parties of the left bloc and by the extreme right of Marine Le Pen.
In one National Assembly in which no political bloc has a clear majority, Macron’s challenge is to appoint a prime minister whose government will not fall into another motion of censure quickly, after Barnier’s only survived three months. “That (survival) will be the priority of the new prime minister” to “give stability to our country,” the Macronist deputy told FranceInfo. Thomas Cazenave.
