At the age of 73, Barnier is the oldest person to take office as prime minister under the Fifth Republic. On 4 December 2024, three months into his tenure, his government was brought down by a vote of no confidence in Parliament.[1] The following day, Barnier and his government resigned. Barnier was succeeded on 13 December by François Bayrou. His tenure as Prime minister is the shortest so far under the Fifth Republic.
Barnier is a pro-European, Gaullist conservative. He has advocated for stricter controls on extra-European immigration, expanding prison capacity and the introduction of mandatory minimum sentences for certain crimes.
Early life and education
Michel Jean Barnier was born at La Tronche in the French Alps, into a Gaullist family in 1951. His father, Jean Barnier,[2] was a leather and textiles craftsman.[3] His mother, Denise Durand, was a practising member of the Christian left, who founded a local chapter of the Ligue contre la violence routière [fr] (League against road violence). Barnier is the youngest of the couple's three sons.[4]
In 2016, the investigating judge Sabine Kheris requested that the case of Barnier, Dominique de Villepin and Michèle Alliot-Marie be referred to the Court of Justice of the Republic. The former ministers were suspected of having allowed the exfiltration of the mercenaries responsible for the attack on the Bouaké penal camp during the 2004 Ivory Coast conflict, killing nine French soldiers. Supporters of the Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo accused the French government of using the attack as a pretext for military retaliation against him.[17]
Barnier led the UMP list in Ile-de-France for the 2009 European Parliament election. In February 2010 he was confirmed as European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services.[20][21][22] In charge of European banking system reform, he argued for a "coherent single market with intelligent rules that apply everywhere".[23] As European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, Barnier handled many important issues, such as the reform of the financial sector (40 pieces of legislation between 2010 and 2014), the banking union (starting with European Banking Supervision) and the digital single market.[24]
In February 2021, Barnier set up a political faction within the Republicans under the name "Patriot and European" in preparation for a possible bid in the 2022 presidential election.[38][39]
On 27 August 2021, Barnier launched his presidential campaign. At the party's 2021 congress in December, he placed third in the first round of voting with 23.93% of the vote, after Éric Ciotti (on 25.59%) and Valérie Pécresse (on 25.00%); he subsequently endorsed Pécresse.[40] Pécresse was nominated in the second round with 61% of the vote, and proceeded to place in fifth place in the first round of the presidential election, the worst result ever recorded by the Republicans or their Gaullist predecessors[41] She endorsed Macron for the second round of the election.[42] After his defeat, Barnier retreated from front-line politics for most of the three following years.[43][44]
Following gains by opposition parties in the legislative elections called by President Emmanuel Macron in the summer of 2024, the prime minister, Gabriel Attal, resigned. Macron initially refused his resignation but accepted it on 16 July.[45] On 5 September, Barnier was appointed as prime minister by Macron.[46] The period between Attal's resignation and Barnier's appointment was the longest period that the French Fifth Republic had spent under a caretaker government.[44] Barnier is the oldest prime minister in modern French history. Dominique Moïsi, a French political scientist, described Barnier as a compromise candidate, chosen to be acceptable to parties from the centre, the right and the far right.[47]
Barnier's initial challenges as Prime Minister was forming a new government, passing the vote of confidence (with a minimum of 289 out of 577 votes) and submitting the 2025 budget by 1 October to parliament according to Reuters, further remarking that it would "be no easy task with the budget deficit already this year running billions of euros over target, leaving Barnier tough choices about calibrating spending cuts and tax rises" and risking the government's position in parliament.[48] On 6 September, Barnier stated that he would continue some of Macron's policies, including refusing to repeal the raising of the retirement age to 64. On immigration he said, "There still is a feeling that our borders are sieves and that migration flows aren't being controlled."[49] In an interview, he remarked that the new government would include the "presidential camp" and "maybe maybe ministers of the previous government".[50]
Barnier was faced with a National Assembly divided nearly evenly into three blocs: the leftist New Popular Front with a plurality of seats, Macron's centrist to centre-right Ensemble, and the far-right National Rally.[46][51]Marine Le Pen, the leader of National Rally, praised Barnier as "respectful of National Rally voters", but expressed caution as to his legislative agenda. The New Popular Front rejected Barnier's appointment and called for demonstrations against Macron. Olivier Faure, the leader of the Socialist Party, accused Macron of a "denial of democracy."[44]Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leader of the left-wing La France Insoumise, said that Macron had "stolen" the election by not appointing a prime minister from the New Popular Front[52] and called for protests against the new government.[53] According to France's Interior Ministry, around 110,000 people took part in these protests, which were held in Paris,[54]Montauban,[55]Nice, Lille, Strasbourg and Montpellier, as well as in several rural areas.[56]
On 2 December 2024, Barnier invoked article 49.3 of the French Constitution to adopt the Social Security budget for 2025 without submitting it to a parliamentary vote.[57] The decision happened after several last-ditch concessions to find a compromise failed, prompting both the New Popular Front and the National Rally to file motions of no confidence against his government.[58][59] On 4 December, a majority of deputies voted to oust Barnier's government, which became the first to lose a motion of no-confidence since Georges Pompidou's in 1962.[60]
Political positions
Following his appointment as prime minister in 2024, the BBC described Barnier as "a committed, patriotic conservative in the tradition of ... Charles de Gaulle".[43] In a conversation with Politico during July 2024, after the 7 July snap election, Barnier said France's most pressing issues were immigration, the state of its public finances and rebuilding its industrial and agricultural capacities.[61] Upon his appointment as prime minister, he listed his main priorities as education, security and immigration control.[52]
During his 2021 presidential campaign, Barnier stated he would be in favour of proposing a referendum on whether to tighten the legal framework for immigration in France. As a candidate, he stated his intention in "putting a stop to non-European immigration for three to five years," during an interview with French weekly magazine Le Point.[61] He proposed to "immediately stop regularizations, rigorously limit family reunification, reduce the reception of foreign students and the systematic execution of the double penalty".[62][64] He also proposed expanding prison capacity by 20,000 and imposing mandatory minimum sentences for certain crimes.[61]
On economic issues, Barnier has been characterised as close to the neoliberal policies of Emmanuel Macron, including the reduction of taxes and business regulation. As a presidential candidate, Barnier proposed cutting production taxes by €10 billion,[61] raising the retirement age from 62 to 65, lengthening the working week and tightening the conditions for access to social assistance.[62]
Barnier is regarded as pro-European, as supporting NATO, and as favouring support for Ukraine in its war against Russia.[47] He was described as a "Euro-ecstatic" by François Cornut-Gentille, his supporter and colleague in the Republicans.[61] During his presidential campaign, many media organisations commented that Barnier sounded like a Eurosceptic and Brexit supporter, contradicting previous positions he had taken on the matter.[65][66]
In 1981, Barnier voted for the abolition of capital punishment, following a number of other right-wing deputies in breaking party instructions not to do so.[67] In the same year, he was among the conservative politicians, including Jacques Chirac and François Fillon, who voted against reducing the age of consent for same-sex relationships to 15, the same as that for mixed-sex couples.[68] He has made few statements on same-sex relations in the years since.[61]
Personal life
Barnier has been a member of the Sustainability and Legacy Commission of the International Olympic Committee,[69] and of the board of trustees of Friends of Europe, a Brussels-based think tank.[70] In 2021, he published My Secret Brexit Diary, a memoir of the EU's negotiations with the UK during its withdrawal from the bloc.[71]
In 1982, Barnier married Isabelle Altmayer, a lawyer; they have three children.[72][43]
In October 2024, Barnier underwent surgery for a cervical lesion.[73]
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