Michel Barnier will continue his consultations. After receiving, on Monday, September 16, the leaders of the Republican party, including Laurent Wauquiez, Bruno Retailleau and Gérard Larcher, the new Prime Minister, must meet “shortly” the elected representatives of the Liot group (Liberties, Independents, Overseas and Territories), France Télévisions learned from Matignon. According to this same source, “Thinking about the architecture of the next government is progressing”Michel Barnier and Emmanuel Macron are also due to meet on Tuesday, after a last meeting on Sunday, a ministerial source told France Télévisions. Follow our live coverage.
The impeachment vote discussed by the socialists. The PS group meets at the end of the day to “set its line on the vote on the impeachment of the president”on the occasion of the meeting of the bureau of the National Assembly on Tuesday, he announced on Monday. According to the rebellious leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the communists and the ecologists “said they would vote for the transmission”but “We are waiting to know the position of the Socialist Party”.
Just a few more days to wait. The new government should not be known “before Sunday”said LR MPs’ spokesperson Vincent Jeanbrun on Sud Radio on Monday. Prime Minister Michel Barnier has “a complex equation to solve” to compose an executive which must include “people who have experience” to get the budget voted through, he justifies.
Jordan Bardella warns Michel Barnier. The President of the National Rally declared on Monday morning that “If Michel Barnier continues a policy led by Emmanuel Macron for eight years, then this government will fall.” The RN “will judge on the evidence”explains Jordan Bardella, who also declares that he does not believe “that this government can last a long time.”
Ceiling letters sent to MPs. The ceiling letters, which set the budget for each ministry, will be sent to the Finance Committee on Monday, France Télévisions learned from Matignon. “The next government reserves the right to modify them, this is not the final version, there will be modifications”Matignon said.