COUNTERPOINT – The presence of François Bayrou on the Pau municipal council raises a double question: that of the local anchoring of national leaders and that of the accumulation of mandates.
The agricultural crisis for Gabriel Attal, the cyclone in Mayotte for François Bayrou. Welcome to the Matignon laundry where a prime minister has no time to pack his bags and is caught up in emergencies not written in advance on his roadmap. And finds himself judged on his immediate reaction, not on his programmed intentions.
Attal had been criticized for staging a trip to a farm in Haute-Garonne. Bayrou is criticized for not having gone to Mayotte. Too much communication, not enough communication? In any case, it is confirmation that a prime minister does not set the media agenda; he is summoned to submit to it, and at a time when there is no good controversy without controversy.
Several distinct questions come together
On Mayotte, what the left criticized François Bayrou during the current affairs question session for which he was alone on the bench, is for having preferred to maintain his presence on the Pau municipal council. Error ? Clumsiness?…
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