Macron Faces Mounting Pressure to Find New Prime Minister
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Key allies of Emmanuel Macron are heaping pressure on the French president to name a new prime minister quickly, with time running short to pass a stopgap spending bill before the end of the year.
Francois Bayrou, a veteran centrist politician who’s been cited as a possible premier, warned over the weekend that “we can’t continue like this.” Yael Braun-Pivet, the head of the National Assembly and a member of Macron’s party, called on the president during a Sunday radio show to name a new prime minister “in the next few hours.”