As for the 2025 budget, its preparation must follow a strict timetable and protocol, including two consultations, which take a total of about fifteen days. Before submitting the text to Parliament, Matignon must seek the opinion of experts from the High Council of Public Finances and legal experts from the Council of State.
As regards the formation of the government, it is customary for the Prime Minister to organise consultations with the political parties represented in Parliament. Last week, Michel Barnier first met with the three parties in the presidential camp (Renaissance, MoDem and Horizons), before holding talks with Les Républiques (his political party), which agreed to participate in the future government.
Gabriel Attal, Jean Castex, Gérard Larcher, Laurent Wauquiez, Bruno Retailleau, Elisabeth Borne and Yaël Braun-Pivet are all interlocutors of these consultations. These consultations are clearly aimed at elected officials of the center and right: Horizons, MoDem, Ensemble pour la République, Les Républicains and those of the Libertés, Independents, Overseas and Territories (LIOT) group.
On the left, the Socialists refused to meet the Matignon tenant before his general policy statement. The Ecologists want to talk to Michel Barnier after the announcement of his government and before his general policy statement. The national coordinator of La France Insoumise, Manuel Bompard, assured on Tuesday that his party had not received any invitation and suggested that, in any case, it would not meet the Prime Minister.
In the end, only the communists announced that they would meet with Michel Barnier. But Fabien Roussel, national secretary of the PCF, said “without illusion” As for the new head of government, “who has been in politics for fifty years and has never done anything social in our country”. Communist representatives will be received on Tuesday.
