French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to appoint the country’s new prime minister on December 12, the Les Echos newspaper wrote citing a source, Report informs via TASS.
According to the report, the announcement may be made on Thursday afternoon, when the president returns from his brief trip to Poland.
Among possible candidates, Les Echos named 73-year-old Francois Bayrou, the leader of the centrist Democratic Movement (MoDem) party; 38-year-old Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu and Bernard Cazeneuve, 61, who served as prime minister during the final months of socialist Francois Hollande’s presidency.
On December 4, the National Assembly, or the lower house of the French parliament, voted on a motion of no-confidence against the government of Michel Barnier following his controversial decision to sidestep a parliamentary vote on next year’s social security budget.