Elysée sources told the French press that the head of state had been trying to find a candidate to succeed Barnier since last week: Sébastian Lecornu, François Bayrou and Bernard Cazeneuve are among the names that will be dropped.
The French President, Emmanuel Macronwill address the country in a televised intervention today at 8 p.m., a day after the National Assembly condemned the fall of Michel Barnier through a motion of censure with the voices of the left and the far right.
Macron had largely followed this from a distance political crisissince yesterday he was on a three-day state visit to Saudi Arabia. Nevertheless, Elysée sources told the French press that the head of state had been working on finding a solution since last week. candidate to succeed the conservative leader. In any case, the ball is in his court, since in France the power to appoint the Prime Minister is the responsibility of the President of the Republic.
Already in the summer, in the middle of the blockade that caused the deep division in the National Assembly as a result of the early parliamentary elections last July, Macron defended that the appointment should take place for a figure capable of stability to France, something which Barnier was ultimately unable to achieve, as his three-month government was the shortest since the Second World War.
Among the names that will be downloaded, the one that sounds the loudest is that of the current Minister of Defense, Sebastiaan Lecornu; the centrist veteran François Bayrou and again the socialist Bernard Cazeneuvealbeit with less force than when he was expelled by Macron last September.
Source: EITB
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