To replace Bayrou at Matignon, the “socialist path” is gaining ground
With his prime minister set to fall on September 8, Emmanuel Macron made a "pledge" to the Socialist Party this week. Whether it's a "desperate" gesture from the president or a "magic formula" to resolve the crisis, the possibility of a Socialist leading the government is starting to make the party dream, according to the foreign press.
The fall of François Bayrou “is taken for granted to the point that it has become, for the political class as well as for public opinion in France, a non-event,” writes El País . On September 8, in the National Assembly, a majority of deputies is expected to vote against confidence in the government, thus forcing the Prime Minister to submit his resignation to the President of the Republic.
While awaiting this historic vote, the question of the next Prime Minister is stirring up all the commentators. A previously unthinkable possibility has resurfaced: the appointment of a Socialist Prime Minister.
Aware of the risks of a new dissolution and the stalemate that would result from the appointment of another Prime Minister from the ranks of the right and the center, "the Élysée judges the time has come to turn to the socialist camp. Or at least to consider this possibility," reports the Spanish newspaper.
If this were to happen, it would be "the first cohabitation in more than twenty years." Between 1997 and 2002, the socialist Lionel Jospin held the post of Prime Minister under the presidency of Jacques Chirac following the early legislative elections caused by the dissolution of the National Assembly.
The centre-left Madrid daily does not
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