"There is no question" that the right accepts the nomination of a Socialist Party Prime Minister, warns Retailleau

The president of the Republicans party, Bruno Retailleau , warned on Sunday that it was "out of the question" for the right to accept the nomination of a socialist Prime Minister at Matignon, setting out his conditions for LR to remain in government if François Bayrou falls on Monday.

"As you know, there is no question of accepting tomorrow (Monday) that a Socialist Prime Minister be appointed to Matignon," affirmed the current Minister of the Interior during his closing speech at the start of the Republicans' political season in Port-Marly, in the Yvelines.

With this statement, he took the opposite view to the president of the LR deputies, Laurent Wauquiez, seated in the front row, who ruled out "automatic censure" of a socialist Prime Minister before knowing the program he intends to implement.

"Are you going to bring down governments that come forward without even knowing what they want to do?" he asked on LCI, assuring that if the executive included "LFI ministers or implemented the New Popular Front program," there would obviously be censorship.

Bruno Retailleau, who is calling on LR parliamentarians to vote for confidence in the Bayrou government, also announced his intention to propose a government agreement to the next Prime Minister if François Bayrou's government falls on Monday, in statements to the press on the sidelines of LR's return to office.

This agreement, which could also be called a "contract or commitment," would contain two priorities: the budget and "a sovereign part." "It's a kind of commitment" to verify that the conditions for entering the next government will be "compatible with the idea we have of France's recovery," added the current Minister of the Interior.

"We will not return to government under any conditions," insisted the Vendée resident, who called for the rapid appointment of a new Prime Minister if François Bayrou's government is overthrown on Monday.

"Time is running out. The window of opportunity is short," he said, especially since September, in his view, risks "being conducive to disorder" with two days of mobilization on September 10 and 18. Bruno Retailleau did not spare the RN, accusing it of being "in a strategy of destabilization."