Francois Bayrou is the new French Prime Minister, but Le Pen and Melenchon have already voted no confidence in him

Emmanuel Macron has appointed the new French Prime Minister after the earthquake caused by the resignation of Michel Barnier.

He is Francis Bayrou, one of the most experienced French politicians . The face of the centrists , elected to Parliament without interruption from 1982 to today, he has been a candidate for the Elysée three times (2002, 2007 and 2012)

Seventy-three years old, he has been president of the Democratic Movement MoDem since he founded it in 2004 and in 2017 he formed an ironclad alliance with the then forty-year-old founder of En Marche!, Macron, to whom he provided crucial support in his conquest of power .

Will he be able to govern without a majority and a Parliament split into three blocks? There are no encouraging signals from the right and the left. "A prolongation of Macronism can only lead to an impasse," declared Marine Le Pen . Mélenchon's France Insoumise has instead announced that it will immediately present a motion of no confidence .

The prime minister, for his part, launched an appeal for reconciliation in the country : "Everyone - declared Bayrou - can see the difficulty of the task. Everyone says that there is a path to find to reunite people instead of dividing them. I think that reconciliation is necessary."

(Unioneonline/L)