Cover image: Michel Barnier receives representatives of various political groups for a meeting in Paris on September 19, 2024. Cyril Bitton / Difference for the “WORLD”
Prime Minister Michel Barnier announced that a government will be formed in France on Thursday, September 19. “Before market”. In the evening he was received by Emmanuel Macron for about fifty minutes at the Elysée, and was presented with a list of thirty-eight ministers, including sixteen full-time ministers; the final hurdle was the ongoing ethical checks.
The full-time ministers include seven Macronists and three Republicans (LR), two MoDem, one Horizons and one from the centrist UDI party. Several sources from the right and the centre bloc said that among the three ministers from the right, the boss of the LR senators, Bruno Retailleau, should also be appointed to the Ministry of the Interior. The boss of the LR MPs, Laurent Wauquiez, took the lead after declaring that he would not join the government after rejecting the post of finance minister.
On the “Macronists” side, the resigned MoDem Minister of European Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot, will be proposed for foreign affairs, while the Minister of the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu, should be reappointed, according to a central bloc official.
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