French prime ministerial candidate François Bairou has threatened to deprive President Emmanuel Macron of centrist support in parliament if the president does not appoint him prime minister, he told Tribune Dimanche in an interview. , that "he would not have been appointed if the situation was not hopeless".
According to the minister, Macron was ready to appoint 38-year-old defense minister Sebastyan Lecornu as prime minister.
During nearly two hours of negotiations at the Elysée Palace on Friday, Bayrou told the president that Lecornu's candidacy was unacceptable and threatened to deprive the president's faction, which does not have a parliamentary majority, of the support of the centrist bloc.
