Emmanuel Macron has appointed the new French Prime Minister after the earthquake caused by the resignation of Michel Barnier.
He is Francis Bayrou, one of the most experienced French politicians . The face of the centrists , elected to Parliament without interruption from 1982 to today, he has been a candidate for the Elysée three times (2002, 2007 and 2012)
Seventy-three years old, he has been president of the Democratic Movement MoDem since he founded it in 2004 and in 2017 he formed an ironclad alliance with the then forty-year-old founder of En Marche!, Macron, to whom he provided crucial support in his conquest of power .
Will he be able to govern without a majority and a Parliament split into three blocks? There are no encouraging signals from the right and the left. "A prolongation of Macronism can only lead to an impasse," declared Marine Le Pen . Mélenchon's France Insoumise has instead announced that it will immediately present a motion of no confidence .
The prime minister, for his part, launched an appeal for reconciliation in the country : "Everyone - declared Bayrou - can see the difficulty of the task. Everyone says that there is a path to find to reunite people instead of dividing them. I think that reconciliation is necessary."
(Unioneonline/L)
