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FRANCE: No Schedule For New Gov't As Macron To Visit Mayotte

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There is still no schedule for PM Francois Bayrou to name the parties that will form his new administration or the individuals that will sit in his Council of Ministers. Bayrou is under pressure to announce his picks as soon as possible in order to seek to kick-start the French political system out of its current stasis. 

  • Le Monde reportsthat "proposals for names were made yesterday at noon", the president of the MoDem group [Bayrou's party] in the National Assembly, Marc Fesneau, announced on TF1 on Wednesday morning. "The discussions are still very advanced", he added, considering that there is a "need for teams to be able to be formed in the ministries before Christmas..."
  • Earlier, outgoing Foreign Minister Bruno Retailleau added another potential complication to the gov't formation, saying that "The conditions "are not met at the moment" for [the conservative Les Republicains] to join the government,". Without Les Republicains, the Bayrou gov't risks being just the centrist parties that formed the Ensemble alliance in the legislative election comprising 164 of the 577 deputies in the National Assembly, a very vulnerable position to be in.
  • The process could be drawn out further by President Emmanuel Macron's travel schedule. Under the French constitution, the president is required to formally appoint Cabinet picks in person. With Macron set to visit the overseas department of Mayotte on 19 Dec following the devastation caused by Cyclone Chido, the timeline for appointing a gov't could be pushed to the end of the week, or beyond. 
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There is still no schedule for PM Francois Bayrou to name the parties that will form his new administration or the individuals that will sit in his Council of Ministers. Bayrou is under pressure to announce his picks as soon as possible in order to seek to kick-start the French political system out of its current stasis. 

  • Le Monde reportsthat "proposals for names were made yesterday at noon", the president of the MoDem group [Bayrou's party] in the National Assembly, Marc Fesneau, announced on TF1 on Wednesday morning. "The discussions are still very advanced", he added, considering that there is a "need for teams to be able to be formed in the ministries before Christmas..."
  • Earlier, outgoing Foreign Minister Bruno Retailleau added another potential complication to the gov't formation, saying that "The conditions "are not met at the moment" for [the conservative Les Republicains] to join the government,". Without Les Republicains, the Bayrou gov't risks being just the centrist parties that formed the Ensemble alliance in the legislative election comprising 164 of the 577 deputies in the National Assembly, a very vulnerable position to be in.
  • The process could be drawn out further by President Emmanuel Macron's travel schedule. Under the French constitution, the president is required to formally appoint Cabinet picks in person. With Macron set to visit the overseas department of Mayotte on 19 Dec following the devastation caused by Cyclone Chido, the timeline for appointing a gov't could be pushed to the end of the week, or beyond.