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FRANCE: Macron Appoints Bayrou As Prime Minister

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The Élysée Palace announced in a short statement that French President Emmanuel Macron has appointed centrist politician François Bayrou as Prime Minister of France after a meeting at the Élysée Palace described as “tense” by French media.  

  • The appointment, nine days after outgoing Prime Minister Michel Barnier was ousted by a confidence vote, follows two days of meetings with party leaders on strategy to bridge political divides on passing a budget. The far-right National Rally and the hard-left France Unbowed were excluded from talks.
  • Reuters reports that National Rally President Jordan Bardella said that the party's “red lines on policies remain,” stressing that Bayrou “must have dialogue with other parties.”
  • France24 notes that Bayrou “will have a very difficult balancing act of basically trying to keep their government afloat because they will be trying to get agreement from the left and the right of French politics,"
  • Le Monde writes: “[Bayrou's challenge] is now to build a stable relative majority in the National Assembly, in order to avoid a possible censure and to have bills adopted. But like Michel Barnier before him, the game does not look easy for the president of the MoDem.”
  • Mathilde Panot of the left-wing LFI said in a statement that the group will file a motion of censure against Bayrou: "Two clear choices are available to the country: the continuation of the policies of misfortune with François Bayrou or the rupture. Two choices will be available to the deputies: support for Macron's rescue or censure. We have made ours."
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The Élysée Palace announced in a short statement that French President Emmanuel Macron has appointed centrist politician François Bayrou as Prime Minister of France after a meeting at the Élysée Palace described as “tense” by French media.  

  • The appointment, nine days after outgoing Prime Minister Michel Barnier was ousted by a confidence vote, follows two days of meetings with party leaders on strategy to bridge political divides on passing a budget. The far-right National Rally and the hard-left France Unbowed were excluded from talks.
  • Reuters reports that National Rally President Jordan Bardella said that the party's “red lines on policies remain,” stressing that Bayrou “must have dialogue with other parties.”
  • France24 notes that Bayrou “will have a very difficult balancing act of basically trying to keep their government afloat because they will be trying to get agreement from the left and the right of French politics,"
  • Le Monde writes: “[Bayrou's challenge] is now to build a stable relative majority in the National Assembly, in order to avoid a possible censure and to have bills adopted. But like Michel Barnier before him, the game does not look easy for the president of the MoDem.”
  • Mathilde Panot of the left-wing LFI said in a statement that the group will file a motion of censure against Bayrou: "Two clear choices are available to the country: the continuation of the policies of misfortune with François Bayrou or the rupture. Two choices will be available to the deputies: support for Macron's rescue or censure. We have made ours."