The French Prime Minister excludes La Francia Insumisa and National Rally from a meeting with the parties

MADRID Dec. 18 () –

The Prime Minister of France, François Bayrou, has proposed holding a meeting on Thursday with the parliamentary leaders and main authorities of the Legislature to inform them of the guidelines of his Government, although he has left La Francia Insumisa (LFI) out of the meeting. and National Group (RN).

Bayrou has thus proposed a meeting in his office at the Matignon hotel, to which he has also invited the presidents of the National Assembly and the Senate, Yaël Braun-Pivet and Gérard Larcher, respectively, according to a letter from the prime minister. collected by the French newspaper ‘Le Monde’.

The president has justified his decision by pointing out that only representatives of parties that have held a position in the Government at some point will be invited to the meeting. With this formula he manages to leave out the extreme left and the extreme right.

The prime minister has indicated that, “given the unprecedented responsibility” that his Executive must face – without budgets for 2025 and with the “tragedy” due to the storm in Mayotte – he wants to make his political lines known to the agents. parliamentarians before proposing to the president, Emmanuel Macron, his composition of the Government.

Bayrou has stressed that the objective of this meeting is to “enlighten and listen” to the main parliamentary forces on “the directions” that his Government should follow, although he has decided to leave Marine Le Pen’s far-right RN and the FLI out of the meeting. of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, two of the main parties.

The prime minister was appointed less than a week ago but, in this time, he has already received criticism from the political left and right for the “vagueness” of his interventions and for his management of the disaster in the department of Mayotte, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean hit by cyclone ‘Chido’, which leaves at least 30 dead although dozens more are feared.

Bayrou was appointed by President Macron to replace Michel Barnier, who was expelled from office just three months after taking office after winning a historic motion of no confidence against him presented by the left-wing coalition New Popular Front (NFP) and backed by those of Le Pen.

In view of the fact that the NFP – the bloc with the most representation in the National Assembly – has warned that it will propose motions of censure against any prime minister who is not of its opinion; Bayrou is now seeking to gain partners in Parliament to survive the rejection of the left.