French Prime Minister François Bayrou unveiled his fourth government of the year, featuring returnees from Macron's previous administration. The government, criticized by opposition parties for its continuity, faces the challenge of navigating a fractured political landscape.
The fourth government of the year was unveiled by recently-installed French Prime François Bayrou on Monday evening, in what appears to be a doubling down on neo-liberal Macron ism, with previously discarded allies of the president returning to power.
Bayrou’s government will be led by four senior ministers of state; Élisabeth Borne, who started the year as Prime Minister before being forced out by Macron, as the new Education Minister, former Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who has been tapped as the new Minister of the Overseas, Gérald Darmanin, Macron’s former Interior Minister, who has been selected as the new Justice Minister, and Barnier government holdover Bruno Retailleau, who will retain his post at the helm of the Ministry...
“The executive is in place tonight, it will have to change its method, listen and hear the opposition in order to construct a budget that takes into account the choices expressed at the ballot box. While waiting for the change, we will know how to remind it that nothing can be done and decided behind the backs of eleven million French people,” the National Rally leader
Meanwhile, MEP Rima Hassan, a member of the far-left France Unbowed party — another member of the NFP bloc —this week that the new government “will not make it through the winter,” arguing that because there is not a majority in the National Assembly for the budget, the new government will be forced to rely on the controversial constitutional loophole, Article 49.3, which allows the government to enact legislation without a vote in the parliament.
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