Iit persists. Present at the National Assembly for a session of “questions to the Prime Minister” this Tuesday, December 17, François Bayrou had to face a barrage of criticism from all sides. The reason? His presence, Monday, December 16, at the municipal council of Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), while an interministerial crisis meeting was being held on the still dramatic situation in Mayotte, affected, Saturday, December 14, by Cyclone Chido.
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A meeting which the Prime Minister attended by videoconference, “from the first to the last minute”, he said. His choice to go, Monday evening, to the city of which he intends to remain mayor had aroused ire on both the left and the right, with some denouncing a “political error” when he would have been more in his place, according to them, in the stricken archipelago.
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“Pau is in France […] I chaired the municipal council of my city from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m., responded François Bayrou to the Assembly this Tuesday. I consider that, in doing so, I was also in my place as a citizen and I intend to defend this idea that citizenship is not divided between being in Paris and fulfilling one’s responsibilities as a citizen on the ground. »
ALSO READ Pau, so far from Paris and Mayotte: François Bayrou three times out of sync The Prime Minister thus responded to a question from the leader of the LFI deputies, Mathilde Panot. François Bayrou also took as an example the resigning Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, who had also followed this meeting remotely, from Reunion. The resigning minister was there temporarily, before being able to go to Mayotte.
