François Bayrou will continue his consultations with political forces on Tuesday to form a government likely to last and take his first grand oral in the Assembly by answering, alone, the deputies’ questions.
After the far right, the center, the socialists and the right on Monday, the new Prime Minister receives representatives of the ecologists, the MoDem, Horizons, the independents of Liot, the communists, and the ex-LR Eric Ciotti now ally of the RN.
He was keen to receive groups from the National Assembly “by their order of importance” digital. It is then up to them to decide on the composition of their delegation.
Nothing salient came out of the first interviews. The socialists, who proposed renouncing 49.3 in exchange for non-censorship, remained unwavering. ” hunger “ even if they discussed this provision a lot.
Received first, the leader of the National Rally deputies, Marine Le Pen welcomed a “more positive method”. François Bayrou’s predecessor at Matignon, Michel Barnier, was accused of having received it too late.
The environmentalists will be represented by group leaders Cyrielle Chatelain for the Assembly, Guillaume Gontard for the Senate, and party leader Marine Tondelier who does not want “censor a priori”.
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”declared Monday evening from Pau François Bayrou at the end of the Municipal Council which he chaired.
Strong criticism
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 “special law”making up for the lack of budget, if it was voted on during a week devoid of questions to the government.
Prime Minister François Bayrou, reacting to the situation in Mayotte, devastated by a cyclone, Paris, December 14, 2024 / STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP/Archives
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.
On Monday, he attracted strong criticism by choosing to go to Pau, and not to the meeting in Paris of the crisis unit on the devastated archipelago, a meeting which he followed remotely.
From the city of which he has been mayor for 10 years, he indicated that he wanted to reverse the ban on the accumulation of mandates for parliamentarians and confirmed his intention to remain at the head of the municipality, attracting criticism.