Parties divided over who ought to be subsequent PMrevealed at 17:20 Greenwich Mean Time
Europe reporter
Already in the present day, many potential names have been
floated by the media speculating who may succeed Barnier.
Among them are Defence Minister Sébastien Lecornu,
Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau and François Bayrou, the previous centrist
presidential candidate.
Some of those names look extra stable than others.
Lecornu, as an example, has already denied being a candidate whereas,
intriguingly, French media are reporting Bayrou was seeing President Macron
later this afternoon.
These names – hailing from the appropriate and the centre
of the political spectrum – might be palatable to Marine Le Pen, who instructions
probably the most MPs in parliament.
None, nevertheless, belong to any of the various events
that make up the left-wing New Popular Front alliance (NFP).
Many NFP members have all the time mentioned they might vote
down any candidate that does not belong to its ranks.
There
are nearly no candidates that will be accepted by each the NFP and Marine
Le Pen’s RN.
So,
both approach, one of many two largest factions within the French parliament shall be
disillusioned and refuse to again Macron’s alternative – making the help for the
subsequent PM shaky at finest.
