France: After Celebrating the Games, Prime Minister Must Be Elected

Once the “Pax Olympica” is over, which unfortunately does not concern the global situation but only what is happening inside France, it is now up to Paris to find an agreement for a new Prime Minister.

All political forces refrained from attacking Macron during the two weeks of the XXXIII Olympic Games, an event which was crowned with success, despite some problems, from bathing conditions in the Seine to complaints about the organization of the Olympic Village (on queues in the dining facilities and lack of air conditioning).

Now a very divided France is coming back to reality, and Macron must keep his promise to appoint the nation a prime minister “immediately after the Games”; it was supposed that the Council of Ministers could be convened as early as August 13, but the date has already been pushed back to after August 15.

Time is running out, and the names of suitable candidates are those that have been known for some time, from left-wing candidate Lucie Castets, already officially nominated by the New Popular Front before the election even began, to Republican Xavier Bertrand to Bernard Cazeneuve, who was prime minister for a brief period from 2016 to 2017 under Hollande’s presidency.