Last week, the new Prime Minister Michel Barnier indicated that his government would be formed “next week”. So here we are, but the suspense could last until the last moment: “a week is seven days”, the former European Commissioner was quick to point out, as he must continue his consultations with the various political parties.
Key information to remember
⇒ Barnier calls for maintaining the “Olympic spirit” in politics
⇒ MoDem calms LR’s ardor
⇒ The RN will censor if Darmanin, Dupond-Moretti or Bertrand are ministers
RN threatens to censor certain ministers
Invited on RTL this Monday morning, Jordan Bardella warns that “the censorship will not only be that of the Prime Minister, it will also be that of the government”. The president of the RN cites three names that would lead his party to censure the Barnier government: Gérald Darmanin, Éric Dupond-Moretti and Xavier Bertrand.
François Bayrou wants a “complete or almost complete renewal”
“I am in favor of a complete or almost complete renewal of the government so that we have another approach, another sensitivity, other faces,” declared the head of the MoDem on the set of BFMTV yesterday evening, calling on the head of government to take into account in the composition of his executive the “diversity” and “pluralism” resulting from the ballot boxes during the early legislative elections. François Bayrou thus dismisses the “hypothesis” of a government dominated by Les Républicains, Michel Barnier’s political family: if there were a “takeover”, “it could not work”, he assured, ruling out that the Modem would participate in an executive dominated by the right, and saying he did not believe that the Prime Minister could “lock himself into a hyper-minority partisan option.”
Before him, the president of the MoDem group in the Assembly, Marc Fesneau, had already stepped up to the plate, ensuring in The Sunday Tribune that a group of 47 deputies could not “impose its policy”. The resigning minister Jean-Noël Barrot, also MoDem, for his part estimated in THE JDD that the weight of LR in the government “could not exceed that of its group in the National Assembly”.
Michel Barnier calls for preserving the “Olympic spirit”
On X (ex-Twitter), the Prime Minister called on Sunday, the day after the final celebrations of the Paris Olympics, to preserve the “Olympic spirit” and to overcome political divisions: “When political leaders and the country unite, at all levels of public action, and beyond political divisions, nothing is impossible,” he wrote.
Michel Barnier is to continue his consultations in the coming days with a view to forming his government. He has promised that the latter will be formed by the end of the week.