MoDem leader François Bayrou assured on Sunday that he was in favor of a “total or almost total renewal of the government”, while warning that a “control” by the Republicans over Prime Minister Michel Barnier’s executive “would not work”.
“I am for a total or almost total renewal of the government so that we have another approach, another sensibility, other faces,” Bayrou told BFMTV, at a time when Michel Barnier is intensifying contacts to form his executive.
The head of Modem called on the head of government to take into account, in the composition of his executive, the “diversity” and “pluralism” resulting from the early legislative elections.
“The message of these elections is that we must gather our strength to face the challenges that await us,” he explained, ruling out “the hypothesis” of a government dominated by the Republicans, Michel Barnier’s political family.
If there were a “control”, “it could not work”, Bayrou assured, rejecting the fact that Modem participates in an executive dominated by the right, and saying that he does not believe that the Prime Minister can “imply himself. lock yourself in a hyper-minority partisan option.”
The president of the MoDem group in the Assembly, Marc Fesneau, had already come forward this weekend, assuring in La Tribune Dimanche that a group of 47 deputies “cannot impose its policy”; as did the resigning minister Jean-Noël Barrot, also MoDem, who estimated in the JDD that the weight of LR in the government “cannot exceed that of its group in the National Assembly”.
The LR approved on Thursday the principle of participation in the government that will be composed of Barnier, a member of their party, appointed to Matignon by Emmanuel Macron two months after the legislative elections to try to resolve the political crisis linked to the absence of a majority.
The names of the main LR leaders (Laurent Wauquiez, Bruno Retailleau, Annie Genevard) are circulating to enter the government.
Appointed on September 5, Michel Barnier will have to announce the composition of his government “next week”.