Who will be the new ministers in the next government? This is the question that will arise as soon as a new Prime Minister is appointed.
Gabriel Attal will be replaced very soon, the appointment of the new Prime Minister is even imminent according to information from BFMTV, which announced that Emmanuel Macron plans to publish a press release announcing the appointment of a new Prime Minister before 8 p.m.
Bernard Cazeneuve and Xavier Bertrand are the two personalities still likely to be appointed. After a month and a half of governance ensured by resigning ministers, in charge of current affairs, France should enter a new political chapter. But the saga still promises to be very long. The next Prime Minister will indeed have to be able to appoint a ministerial team capable of maintaining a political roadmap that suits enough deputies so that the government avoids the adoption of a motion of censure.
Left ready to censor new government
The different parties that form the New Popular Front (NFP) are clear, they want their candidate Lucie Castets to head the government and no one else. Although her name was quickly swept aside by Emmanuel Macron, she nevertheless announced on Thursday, August 29, that she would leave her position as director of finances for the City of Paris in order to continue the race for Matignon. In addition, La France Insoumise has launched a procedure to impeach Emmanuel Macron. The Insoumis had threatened the president with this procedure if Lucie Castets was not called upon to form a government.
The Insoumis and the ecologists have warned that they will vote for a motion of censure against a government led by the former socialist Bernard Cazeneuve. The PS is less categorical, the PC too, and is waiting to see the roadmap that it could present. The RN has also indicated that Bernard Cazeneuve would be censured.
If Xavier Bertrand is appointed, the threats of censorship are even more explicit: the entire left and the RN have made it known that this option would be censored by their deputies, which suggests a very short-lived governance in the event of the appointment of the president of Hauts de France.