To restore stability, Macron will name a new French prime minister on Friday.

President Emmanuel Macron will wait until Friday before announcing his pick for France’s next prime minister, according to the Elysee Palace, ending months of political impasse.

Eight days after French MPs ousted Michel Barnier as prime minister in a no-confidence vote, Macron cut short a visit to Poland on Thursday and was expected to return with a new name. .

But after landing at Villacoble airbase near Paris, his delegation said there would be no statement until Friday morning.

French politics have been in limbo since Macron announced parliamentary elections over the summer and when he names a new prime minister, it will be his fourth this year.

An opinion poll for BFMTV on Thursday showed that 61% of French voters are worried about the political situation.

Although Macron indicated that a decision would be made by the end of Thursday, followers of French politics have grown accustomed to the president’s whims. Maître des horloges – Master of watches.

Macron has vowed to stay in office until his second term expires in 2027, despite Barnier’s fall last week.

He has already held round-table talks with the leaders of all the main political parties, including Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s far-left France Envoy (LFI) and Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally.

He needs to form a government that will not be brought down in the way that Barniers did in the National Assembly.

It is believed they will either try to bring centre-left parties into government, or agree to a deal so they don’t even oust the next prime minister.

The former Brexit negotiator was voted in as Le Pen’s National Rally joined left-wing MPs in rejecting her €60bn (£50bn) plan for tax cuts and spending increases. . He was trying to reduce France’s budget deficit, which will reach 6.1 percent of economic output (GDP) this year.

Among the favorites to replace Barnier, who was prime minister for just three months, were centrist MoDem leader Francois Bairro, Defense Minister Sebastien Lecorno and centre-left former prime minister Bernard Cazeneuve.

Under the political system of the French Fifth Republic, the president is elected for a five-year term and then appoints a prime minister, who then chooses a cabinet.

Unusually, President Macron called for snap parliamentary elections in the summer after a poor result in EU elections in June. The result plunged France into a political deadlock, with three major political blocs: the left, the center and the far right.

He eventually elected Michel Barnier to form a minority government dependent on Marine Le Pen’s national rally for its survival. But now that it has collapsed, Macron is hoping to restore stability without relying on his own party.

Three centre-left parties – the Socialists, the Greens and the Communists – have aligned with the more radical left-wing LFI and entered into talks to form a new government.

However, he has made it clear that if he is going to join a broad-based government, he wants to see a left-wing prime minister of his choice.

“I told you that I want someone from the left and the Greens and I think Mr. Barrow is not one or the other,” Greens leader Marine Tondelier told French TV on Thursday. told French TV on Thursday, adding that he did not see how the centrist camp lost the parliamentary elections. Elections may hold the office of Prime Minister and maintain the same policies.

However, he also said that he did not favor Bernard Cazeneuve, even though he was a socialist: “He only criticized us once. He cannot represent us.”

Relations between the centre-left and Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s radical LFI have broken over the decision by all three parties to push ahead with talks with President Macron.

The LFI leader called on his former allies to withdraw from the coalition agreement, with the Socialists’ Olivier Faure telling French TV that “the more Mélenchon shouts, the less he is heard”.

Meanwhile, Marine Le Pen has called for her party’s policies on the cost of living to be taken into account by the incoming government, creating a budget that “does not cross the red lines of each party”.

Michel Barnier’s caretaker government has introduced a bill to extend provisions of the 2024 budget into next year. But after the next government takes over, the alternative budget for 2025 has to be approved.