While he was absent from Pau in recent days, François Bayrou was in his city this Sunday, December 8 to inaugurate the Section Paloise boutique in the city center. But it is on a completely different subject than rugby that Mayor Modem of Pau was questioned, since his name circulates in the list of contenders for Matignon since the fall of Michel Barnier's government on Wednesday. François Bayrou spoke on the subject at the microphone of France Bleu Béarn Bigorre, although he had remained silent since the government's censorship.
“It is the events which will now decide”, breathes the mayor of Pau. “We can't continue like this, if I can help us get out of all this, I will. It's a situation that no French citizen can accept to see continue or become more complex.” But when the journalists present asked him whether he would accept a nomination or not, François Bayrou simply turned on his heels.
“He would make a good Prime Minister”
François Bayrou has been making frequent trips to Paris in recent days. He had lunch with the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée the day after the fall of the government, and he was present at the reopening ceremony of Notre-Dame de Paris this Saturdayinstalled in fifth place, just behind former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal.
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In addition to the name of the leader of the Modem, those of the socialist Bernard Cazeneuve or the minister Sébastien Lecornu are also being discussed as options for the post of Prime Minister. Asked about the François Bayrou hypothesis in Matignon by our colleagues from BFM this Friday, Bernard Cazeneuve praised the mayor of Pau: “of course he would make a good Prime Minister, he has all the qualities for that, he has indisputable political experience, he has held responsibilities in the state apparatus, he is a man who has experience of “public affairs, so of course he will make a good Prime Minister”.
“He’s someone I respect a lot.” replied François Bayrou about the socialist, former Prime Minister under François Hollande, “I was very supportive of him in July when he almost got nominated and wasn't. He's someone whose judgment and experience I appreciate, and we have a solid bond of solidarity”.
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