François Bayrou will continue, this Tuesday, December 17, his consultations with political forces to form a government likely to last: the representatives of the ecologists, the MoDem, Horizons, the independents of Liot, the communists, and the ex- LR Eric Ciotti now allied with the RN. The new Prime Minister will also have his first major oral presentation in the Assembly by answering, alone, questions from deputies. At the same time, he will have to face his first controversy, concerning his trip to Pau in the midst of a tragedy in Mayotte.
Information to remember:
⇒ In Pau, François Bayrou advocated the accumulation of mandates
⇒ The new Prime Minister hopes to form a government “this week”
⇒ Eric Ciotti, Marine Tondelier… The consultations at Matignon continue
08:30
The RN does not want to “govern with François Bayrou”
Invited on the TF1 set this Tuesday morning, RN spokesperson Laure Lavalette welcomed the fact that François Bayrou quickly received the National Rally in Matignon. “We hope that he will be a finer negotiator than Michel Barnier was. He started by extending his hand to the group that we are,” she declared. “We have two or three common ideas, particularly on proportional representation,” she added, however assuring that her group remained in opposition: “We do not want to govern with François Bayrou,” she declared. .
07:20
First grand oral at the Assembly
The Prime Minister will go to the National Assembly in the afternoon, where he will answer questions from the group presidents for 45 minutes, alone since the existing ministers have resigned and are therefore not authorized to participate in the exercise. . Aged 73, he will discover a hemicycle undoubtedly more agitated than the one he experienced when he was deputy for Pyrénées-Atlantiques (2002-2012).
According to a parliamentary source, these questions are also a way “to purge the risk of unconstitutionality” which could be tainted by the “special law”, compensating for the lack of budget, if it were voted on during a week devoid of questions to the government . François Bayrou will also probably be questioned about Mayotte, the poorest department in France, devastated by a cyclone which would have caused hundreds or even thousands of deaths.
07:15
François Bayrou hopes to form a government “this week”
François Bayrou led a first series of consultations with political forces on Monday in order to compose his government and find a way forward on the budget. The RN, the center, the socialists and the right were received yesterday. It’s the turn this Tuesday of representatives of ecologists, MoDem, Horizons, independents from Liot, communists, and ex-LR Eric Ciotti now allied with the RN. François Bayrou was keen to receive the groups of the National Assembly “in their numerical order of importance”. It is then up to them to decide on the composition of their delegation.
Nothing salient came out of the first interviews. First received, Marine Le Pen, leader of the RN deputies, accompanied by party president Jordan Bardella, welcomed upon her exit a “more positive method” than her predecessor Michel Barnier, accused of having received it too late. And this while Emmanuel Macron wanted after the censorship to “no longer depend” on the far-right party. The socialists, who proposed to renounce 49.3 in exchange for non-censorship, remained unsatisfied, even if they discussed this provision a lot.
In the midst of a budget crisis, time is running out to form a government. “My deadline is this week, I hope. But the president must be there,” François Bayrou declared Monday evening from Pau. Emmanuel Macron is going to Lyon this Tuesday afternoon, then from Wednesday afternoon to Thursday evening to Brussels for European summits. He also announced that he would go to Mayotte “in the coming days”.
07:00
A first controversy for François Bayrou
François Bayrou said Monday evening that he was in favor of re-authorizing the accumulation of mandates for parliamentarians, confirming before the Pau municipal council that he would remain mayor of the city. “We made a mistake by (making) local and national responsibilities incompatible, it’s a mistake […] For members of the government, it is authorized, for parliamentarians, no. I think that this debate must be resumed,” declared François Bayrou, specifying that he would ask this question in his general policy speech. “I can see it without the addition of compensation,” he then said. added in front of the press.
But the new Prime Minister attracted strong criticism by choosing to chair the municipal council in Pau in the midst of the crisis in Mayotte. Maintaining this round trip to Pau is an “unworthy and disrespectful” decision even though the overseas department is “going through one of the worst tragedies”, socialist deputy Arthur Delaporte reacted on X. For the leader of the deputies of La France insoumise, Mathilde Panot, the “symbol it sends” is “very bad”, “after 20 years of policy of abandoning Mayotte”.