Centrist Francois Bayrou named as France's new prime minister after Michel Barnier's resignation

The Prime Minister is due to meet this weekend with the leaders of parliamentary groups, whom he will then receive at the beginning of the week in Matignon.

ThePatriotLight - Failing Macron Tries Again, Appoints Veteran Centrist François Bayrou as New French Prime Minister After Last Cabinet Lasted Less Than Four Months

ThePatriotLight - French President Emmanuel Macron is a survival expert, a political escape-artist that has survived countless crises since coming into power in 2017. In his time as President, Macron has had no less than 6 Prime Ministers: Édouard Philippe served for 3 years, 49 days; Jean Castex for 1 year, 317 days. By the time Élisabeth Borne came to the end of her 1 year, 238 days, Macron was already very unpopular, governing with minority c…

Failing Macron Tries Again, Appoints Veteran Centrist François Bayrou as New French Prime Minister After Last Cabinet Lasted Less Than Four Months

French President Emmanuel Macron is a survival expert, a political escape-artist that has survived countless crises since coming into power in 2017. In his time as President, Macron has had no less than 6 Prime Ministers: Édouard Philippe served for 3 years, 49 days; Jean Castex for 1 year, 317 days. By the time Élisabeth Borne came to the end of her 1 year, 238 days, Macron was already very unpopular, governing with minority coalitions, so he a…

How long will Macron’s fourth prime minister of the year last?

Emmanuel Macron has appointed the veteran centrist François Bayrou as his fourth prime minister of the year. First elected as an MP in 1986, Bayrou served as the minister for education in the 1990s under both the Socialist government of president Francois Mitterrand and the center-right Jacques Chirac. In 2007 he launched a Centrist party, Mouvement démocrate (MoDem), which rallied to Macron’s support in the 2017 presidential election, even thou…

Paris. The historic 73-year-old centrist leader François Bayrou was appointed Friday as Prime Minister of France by President Emmanuel Macron, with the mission of forming a government capable of avoiding a new vote of censure such as the one that caused the fall of his predecessor, Michel Barnier, on 3 December after only three months in power.Bayrou, founder of the Democratic Movement (MoDem) in 2002, hopes to count on the support or abstention…

France faces an unprecedented political crisis in its recent history: opposition legislators from both extremes of the political spectrum joined forces to vote for the end of Michel Barnier's term as prime minister when only three months had passed since he took office.The French president, Emmanuel Macron, yesterday appointed as Barnier's successor the veteran political leader François Bayrou, 73, with the challenge of bringing together a parli…