{"id":13280,"date":"2024-09-20T13:29:21","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T17:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/?p=13280"},"modified":"2024-09-20T13:29:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T17:29:21","slug":"michel-barnier-named-french-prime-minister-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2024\/09\/20\/michel-barnier-named-french-prime-minister-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Michel Barnier Named French Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Michel Barnier Named French Prime Minister<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Sophie Ulm<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Staff Writer<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"ose-gettyimages ose-uid-c61336cbd3ca0c15d72e9dafb4b1dad2 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:723px; height:623px; max-height:623px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"GettyImages\"><a id=\"9FBw8PJnT959pzD3JVSLVA\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/2169678844\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:\"9FBw8PJnT959pzD3JVSLVA\",sig:\"9wsVGMspjCmSng-pzJKYQjUB02OIZuPHzUw8XCNnZXo=\",w:\"594px\",h:\"396px\",items:\"2169678844\",caption: false ,tld:\"com\",is360: false })});<\/script><script src=\"\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\" async><\/script><\/div>\n\t\t\t<script>\n\t\t\t\tif (typeof gie === 'function') {\n\t\t\t\t\tgie(function(){\n\t\t\t\t\t\tvar iframe = document.querySelector('.ose-embedpress-responsive iframe');\n\t\t\t\t\t\tif(iframe && !iframe.getAttribute('title')){\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tiframe.setAttribute('title', '')\n\t\t\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t\t});\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t<\/script>\n\t\t\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Michel Barnier has been named as France\u2019s new prime minister by French President Emmanuel Macron, according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/09\/05\/nx-s1-5101536\/france-prime-minister-michel-barnier\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NPR<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. A moderate conservative with a 50-year political career, Barnier was named prime minister almost two months after snap elections were held in France to determine a new government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Barnier is best known in France for his role in negotiating the United Kingdom\u2019s exit from the European Union (Brexit) from 2016 to 2019, a role which earned him the nickname \u201cMonsieur Brexit,\u201d according to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cqjlxvg2gj7o\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">BBC<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. There is some hope that his role in these talks will help him navigate the tense political climate in France.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Barnier has hinted since his selection that his policies might include increased taxes, opening debate on Macron\u2019s contentious pension plan, and harder immigration policies. France is currently undergoing an excessive-deficit procedure in Brussels for overspending on their 2023 annual budget, reports <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/french-prime-minister-michel-barnier-debt-tax-raises-france-deficit\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Politico<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and Barnier has stated that he does \u201cnot want to raise the debt of our country.\u201d Barnier has also pledged that his government \u201cwill not only be a right-wing government,\u201d with many believing that he will welcome some members of Macron\u2019s centrist party and potentially some left-wing leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Macron\u2019s office said in the announcement that Barnier would be tasked \u201cwith forming a unifying government to serve the French country and the French people,\u201d reports <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/france-prime-minister-brexit-negotiator-michel-barnier-emmanuel-macron-rcna169717\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NBC News<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The 73-year-old has served as French foreign minister, European affairs minister, environment minister, agriculture minister, and twice as a European commissioner. Barnier becomes the oldest prime minister since 1958, the beginning of the modern French government.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Talks for who would lead the new government became difficult after no party won a clear majority in the snap elections that Macron said he hoped would bring the nation a \u201cmoment of clarity,\u201d reports <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/france-elections-right-left-macron-32fe723ea2a592e7ce243f68a89729a2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Associated Press<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. All three of the main blocs fell short of reaching the 289-seat majority needed to control the 577-seat National Assembly, with the New Popular Front leftist coalition coming the closest at 180 seats. Macron\u2019s centrist coalition came in second with just over 160 seats while the conservative coalition claimed over 140 seats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Under French law, the president is solely responsible for selecting the prime minister and does not have to select a candidate from the party with the most seats in the National Assembly. After meetings with leaders of the centrist and right coalitions who said they would not support the New Popular Front\u2019s candidate, Macron called on the New Popular Front to create a plan to work with the other parties and find a candidate who could pass a censure-vote in the National Assembly, according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/8\/27\/macron-has-blocked-left-wing-choice-for-french-pm-what-happens-next\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Al Jazeera<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. After meeting with\u00a0 several candidates, Macron decided on Barnier, who seems to have the backing of the centrist coalition as well as some parties in the right-wing coalition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the naming of Barnier as Prime Minister, several leaders in the New Popular Front accused the election of having been \u201cstolen,\u201d according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/french-far-right-exerts-outsize-power-over-barnier-macron-rivals-say-2024-09-06\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reuters<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and have said that Macron had not listened to the voice of the people in snap elections by picking a member of the conservative party, which came in third. Leftist leaders are now calling for demonstrations over the weekend to protest the decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Image courtesy of <em>Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A moderate conservative with a 50-year political career, Michel Barnier was named prime minister almost two months after snap elections were held in France to determine a new government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2705],"tags":[449,893],"class_list":["post-13280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2705","tag-france","tag-election"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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