The Elysée has finally chosen a prime minister, seven weeks after the results of the general elections. Michel Barnier, former Brexit negotiator for the European Union and former minister of the RPR and then of the UMP (now Les Républicains), will succeed Gabriel Attal, the Elysée announced on 5 September.
This announcement marks the end of a political soap opera that has lasted all summer, since the result of the vote on July 7, in which the New Popular Front (NFP) coalition came out on top, in a National Assembly divided into three large antagonistic blocs: the left, the centre and the National Rally (RN), with Les Républicains (LR) in fourth place.
From internal divisions in the left alliance to “chewing” The endless series of Presidential elections, from the spontaneous candidacies of Clémentine Autain and Ségolène Royal to the quasi-campaign of Lucie Castets, via the trial balloons Karim Bouamrane, Xavier Bertrand and even Thierry Beaudet, return to the very varied profiles of the “prime ministers” who succeeded one another throughout the summer and who were dismissed one by one.
