sitting next to Emanuel macron at the citizens convention on assisted dying TI bod a man that could be a potential candidate for prime minister trained as a teacher and president of the French economic social and environmental Council bour was relatively unknown to the public until Monday as macron shows signs of appointing a government led by technocrats ministers wouldn't be political figures but civil servants without partisan affiliation government that would therefore distance itself from France's device partisan politics but appointees from Civil Society like bod would also have their challenges he would be faced with a National Assembly that is very polarized and tumultuous to not have come from this background would mean that he would have to adapt very quickly he would also have to survive a motion of no confidence and criticism for his lack of a clear electoral mandate as well as meeting with bour this week the French president has also met with former presidents and Nicolas Sosi as well as conservative zavier beron and former prime minister Bernard kazn