macron meets with multiple people to select new prime minister
2024-09-02
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xinhua news agency, beijing, september 2nd. french president emmanuel macron is close to determining the candidate for prime minister of the new government and is scheduled to meet with two potential candidates on the 2nd, according to informed sources and media.
french president emmanuel macron attended the opening ceremony on july 26. the opening ceremony of the 33rd summer olympic games was held in paris, france on the same day. photo by xinhua news agency reporter gao jingreuters reported on the 1st, citing people familiar with the matter, that one of them is former prime minister bernard cazeneuve. cazeneuve once belonged to the socialist party with former president francois hollande, but left the traditional left-wing party two years ago to protest the growing closeness between the socialist party and the far-left party "unbowed france".
public opinion has recently been optimistic about cazeneuve, believing that he is one of the most likely candidates to become the new prime minister.
on february 13, 2017, french prime minister françois cazeneuve attended a press conference in berlin, the capital of germany. photo by xinhua news agency reporter shan yuqiaccording to french newspapers le figaro and le parisien, another potential candidate for prime minister is xavier bertrand, the current president of the upper france regional council, who is from the traditional right-wing republican party and is less popular than cazeneuve. bertrand will also meet with macron.
macron will also meet with former presidents françois hollande and nicolas sarkozy, who belong to the left and right camps respectively, on the 2nd. cazeneuve served as prime minister from december 2016 to may 2017 during the last years of hollande's administration and served as a government minister three times. bertrand served as a minister in the sarkozy government.
the centrist coalition "together", led by macron's ennahda party, lost to the far-right national rally in the european parliament elections in june. macron then announced the dissolution of the national assembly and early elections.
in the national assembly elections from late june to early july, the left-wing party alliance "new people's front" won more than 180 seats in the 577-seat national assembly, ranking first, but not more than half, and needs to form a government with other parties to ensure that the prime minister it nominated and subsequent policies will pass smoothly in the parliament. "together" ranked second in the number of seats, and the national alliance and its few republican allies ranked third.
nearly two months after the national assembly election, the new government has been delayed in forming as political parties have been unable to bridge their differences in political positions. macron issued a statement on the evening of august 26, saying that he would not appoint a government led by the "new popular front" on the grounds that its rule would threaten france's "institutional stability."
according to reuters, the new prime minister faces the arduous task of pushing reform measures and obtaining approval from the national assembly for the 2025 fiscal year budget after taking office.
the european commission and bond markets are pressuring france to cut its deficit. according to the french constitution, even if the political deadlock in france continues after the new government takes office, macron will not have the power to dissolve parliament and hold new elections until july next year. (ocean)
