French President Emmanuel Macron will name a new prime minister on Friday morning, his office said on Thursday, December 12, as pressure mounted to fill the post a week after MPs toppled the government, APA reports citing Le Monde.
"The statement naming the prime minister will be published tomorrow morning," the Elysée presidential palace said on Thursday after Macron returned early from a trip to Poland.
Greens leader Marine Tondelier urged Macron on Thursday to "get out of his comfort zone" as he casts around for a name. "The French public wants a bit of enthusiasm, momentum, fresh wind, something new," she told France 2 television.
Former prime minister Michel Barnier, whose government had support only from Macron's centrist camp and his own conservative political family, was felled last week in a confidence vote over his cost-cutting budget. His caretaker administration on Wednesday reviewed a bill designed to keep the lights of government on without a formal financial plan for 2025, allowing tax collection and borrowing to continue. Lawmakers are expected to widely support the draft law when it comes before parliament on Monday.
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