The far-right National Rally said it will not seek Francois Bayrou’s immediate removal, while reaction on the left was more mixed.
Bayrou faces tough challenge to steer 2025 budget through parliamentFrench President Emmanuel Macron named Francois Bayrou as his fourth prime minister of 2024 on Friday, charging the veteran centrist with steering the country out of its second political crisis in the past six months.
However, far-left France Unbowed party leaders said they would be seeking to remove Bayrou, and Greens boss Marine Tondelier said she would support a no-confidence motion if Bayrou ignored their tax and pensions concerns. “Now we will see how many billions the support of the Socialist Party will cost,” a government adviser said on Friday.Macron will hope Bayrou can stave off no-confidence votes until at least July, when France will be able to hold a new parliamentary election, but his own future as president will inevitably be questioned if the government should fall again.
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