Macron nominates Francois Bayrou as new French PM

PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron has nominated Francois Bayrou as France's new prime minister, the Elysee announced in a press release on Friday.

Francois Bayrou, a centrist ally of Macron, succeeds Michel Barnier who was outed in a no-confidence vote. Bayrou now needs to form a government and make a 2025 budget adopted by the French National Assembly.

Born in 1952, Bayrou founded the centrist party Democratic Movement (MoDem) in 2007. He ran as a presidential candidate three times, in 2002, 2007, and 2012.

After the announcement of the Elysee, Jordan Bardella, president of the far-right wing party National Rally (RN) told French news channel BFMTV that his party would not immediately censor Bayrou.

However, Bardella called on Bayrou to "take into consideration the new political situation" and to "understand that he has no democratic legitimacy nor the majority in the National Assembly, which requires a dialogue with all the forces represented in the parliament."

The hard-left party La France Insoumise (LFI) has announced a plan to launch a no-confidence vote to bring down the newly nominated Bayrou.

The LFI has repeatedly said that the position of prime minister should be given to someone from the left-wing parties alliance who won the most seats in the snap legislative elections this year.

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