The Prime Minister defended, Tuesday December 17 in the National Assembly, his choice to go to Pau the day before while Mayotte was devastated by the passage of Cyclone Chido. In the confusion, he blurted out that the archipelago was outside “national territory”.
Every day his controversy with François Bayrou. Questioned by deputies in the National Assembly this Tuesday, December 17, the Prime Minister got his feet stuck. The new head of government tried to justify his choice to chair the Pau municipal council the day before, rather than physically participating in the meeting of the interministerial crisis center in Mayotte. The head of Modem argued that he was not “no use” that the Prime Minister and the President of the Republic “leave the national territory at the same time”, knowing that Emmanuel must soon go to the devastated archipelago. Problem: Mayotte is indeed a French department, the 101st precisely.
After the criticism of his choice to favor his town in Béarn on Monday, this clumsiness – to say the least – of François Bayrou goes badly. On the left, LFI MP Clémence Guetté expressed her “shame”, while his rebellious colleague Thomas Portes denounced “a colonial response”. Communist senator Ian Brossat spoke of a “shipwreck”. “In the minds of our leaders, Mayotte is a distant territory, made up of sub-citizens, ineligible for republican equality. Our Mahorais compatriots really deserve better than François Bayrou”scathed the PCF vice-president of the Senate. Socialist senator Alexandre Ouizille, for his part, considered that François Bayrou must “apologize”.
Before this exit, the head of the rebellious deputies, Mathilde Panot, had told the Prime Minister that he “shouldn’t have [se] go to Pau to retain a mandate, but to the crisis meeting at the Elysée to assume [son] new role ». François Bayrou justified himself by invoking the need not to “separate the province and the circle of powers in Paris”one of his hobby horses. “Pau is in France […] I was also in my place as a citizen”he pleaded.
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