LIVE. New Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu will meet with the party leaders of the central bloc this morning.

The new Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, is busy on Thursday, September 11, the day after the transfer of power with François Bayrou. "We will need breaks, and not just in form, and not just in method, breaks in substance as well," he declared the day before from the steps of Matignon during a brief statement. After receiving Gabriel Attal, Edouard Philippe, Bruno Retailleau, and Laurent Wauquiez on Wednesday, the head of government is to continue his consultations by meeting with the President of the Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, and the President of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, while the opposition will be invited at a later stage. The appointment of ministers is therefore expected to take time . Follow our live coverage.

Sébastien Lecornu is already unpopular. The mission of the new Prime Minister, who has a reputation as a skilled negotiator, is high-risk in a fragmented political landscape and given the very cool, even hostile, reactions to the announcement of his appointment to Matignon. In a poll for Le Figaro , 69% of French people say that his appointment "does not meet their expectations" and 56% have a poor opinion of him.

A tense September 10. After taking office at Matignon, the Prime Minister went at 7 p.m. to the Interior Ministry's interministerial crisis center, which had been activated during the "Block Everything" movement. The Interior Ministry reported "596 rallies" and "253 blockades" involving "197,000 participants," in a report compiled in the evening . A total of 675 people were arrested in France, including 280 in Paris, according to a consolidated report from the Interior Ministry on Thursday.

The show "L'Evénement" is back. After the 8 p.m. news on France 2, Caroline Roux will welcome Jordan Bardella, president of the National Rally; Carole Delga, PS president of the Occitanie region; Jean-Luc Mélenchon, founder of La France insoumise; and Amélie de Montchalin, resigning Minister for Public Accounts, to discuss the unprecedented political situation. They will answer your questions .