The new government will be presented “before Sunday”, assures Matignon after the meeting between Michel Barnier and Emmanuel Macron

France Télévisions has received confirmation of several names among the 38 that the Prime Minister proposed to the President, including Sébastien Lecornu for the Armed Forces, Catherine Vautrin for the Territories, and Bruno Retailleau for the Interior.

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Prime Minister Michel Barnier, on September 7, 2024, visiting Necker Hospital in Paris. (LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP)

The list will be unveiled soon. The new government will be presented “before Sunday”announced Matignon on Thursday, September 19, after the meeting between Michel Barnier and Emmanuel Macron. The Prime Minister went to the Elysée Palace in the evening for an exchange described as “constructive” with the head of state by Matignon, who specified that the proposed government “respects the balances”.

France Télévisions has had confirmation of several names among the 38 that the Prime Minister proposed to the President: Sébastien Lecornu for the Armed Forces, Catherine Vautrin for the Territories, Rachida Dati for Culture, Bruno Retailleau for the Interior, Senator François-Noël Buffet for Overseas Territories and Annie Genevard for Agriculture.

The leader of the Republicans (LR) deputies, Laurent Wauquiez, will nevertheless not be part of the future government. “Michel Barnier offered me Bercy and so I declined to remain at the head of the group”he told his fellow parliamentarians, according to his entourage. “From the beginning, I said that entering the government was not my obsession. I said that I would only go if I could be useful to the Ministry of the Interior”added the deputy from Haute-Loire.


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