New Prime Minister: What the “new arc of government” that Emmanuel Macron is looking for could look like ?

Emmanuel Macron is meeting several political leaders on Friday, December 6, from the Socialist Party to the LR, including those from his own camp, with a view to forming a “general interest government” after Michel Barnier's censure on Wednesday.

The head of state, who said he was looking for a “arch of government“, tried to regain control on Thursday evening during a televised address, in which he promised to appoint a new Prime Minister “in the coming days”.

He will receive early in the morning the leaders of the Macronist camp (Renaissance, MoDem, Horizons, Radicaux, UDI), then at noon the leaders of the socialist deputies Boris Vallaud and his counterpart in the Senate Patrick Kanner, as well as the leader of the party Olivier Faure. Early in the afternoon, it will be the turn of the leaders of LR.

The announcement of the name of a new head of government is not expected before the weekend, or even Monday, and even more time should be required to know the composition of his new team.

In the meantime, Emmanuel Macron must take a break with the grand reopening of Notre-Dame on Saturday, where several dozen heads of state or government, including the American president-elect Donald Trump, are expected.

The National Rally, France Insoumise, the Ecologists and the Communists have not been invited to the Elysée at this stage, fuelling speculation about a possible attempt to drive a wedge into the left-wing alliance of the New Popular Front.

Coalition

“We will go to the Elysée because we asked for it,” PS First Secretary Olivier Faure assured on X. “Those who think that the Socialist Party is for sale are mistaken,” he warned from the outset.

“The socialists do what they want,” swept aside Insoumis coordinator Manuel Bompard on BFMTV, while judging that “going to discuss or negotiate a form of coalition with the Macronists (…) is a break with the commitments made to the voters.”

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For Mr. Macron, the new government must represent “all the political forces of a government arc that can participate in it or, at the very least, that undertakes not to censor it”, he set as specifications on Thursday, also promising a “tight government”.

First “priority” of the new Prime Minister: “the budget, while discussions in Parliament were interrupted by the motion of censure”.

A special law will be tabled “before mid-December in Parliament“, affirmed the President of the Republic, by describing a th “temporary law” which “will allow the continuity of public services and the life of the country” by applying “for 2025 the choices of 2024″.

Who will lead this project ? François Bayrou, a long-time supporter of Emmanuel Macron, is all the more cited since he had lunch with the president at the Elysée on Thursday and also met with another contender, former socialist Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve.

The names of the Minister of the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu, Xavier Bertrand, and the Mayor of Troyes, François Baroin, are also circulating.

“Until 2027”

During his televised address, Emmanuel Macron also attacked “the irresponsibility” of a “anti-republican front” in which “the extreme right and the extreme left have united” against Michel Barnier.

In reaction to the censorship, the President of the Republic assured that he“will never assume the irresponsibility of others, and in particular of the parliamentarians who have consciously chosen to bring down the budget and the government of France a few days before Christmas.”

Rejecting these attacks, the leader of the RN, Jordan Bardella, said on France 2 that he wished to be received “very quickly” by the future Prime Minister, so “that each political force represented in Parliament can make its red lines known.” “I have expressed them very clearly, they are always the same“, he added.

While Emmanuel Macron had criticized those who had chosen “disorder” and castigated the “sense of chaos” of those who “only think of one thing, the presidential election, to prepare for it, to provoke it, to rush it”, Jean-Luc Mélenchon responded to him on TF1 that he was “the cause of the problem”, predicting that the president “will leave by force of events”.

The head of state had nevertheless warned that he intended to complete his mandate “until its end” in 2027.

Pointed out as the main person responsible for the political situation after his surprise dissolution of the Assembly in the spring, according to several opinion polls, Emmanuel Macron acknowledged that the decision to dissolve the lower house “was not understood”. “Many have criticized me for it and I know, many continue to criticize me for it”, he also admitted.