We cannot forgive him for accumulating mandates and functions, which he claims to “re-root political responsibilities”, nor for his lightning visit to Pau, while the situation in Mayotte turns out to be catastrophic and “France needs a budget” and a government.
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On social networks the same evening and from the radio and television morning shows on Tuesday, he is under fire from criticism.
“Indecent”, “stunning”
On the left, but also on the right, we criticize this round trip between Matignon and Pau en Falcon. “It is totally indecent to put this question back in the public debate when we have a disaster in Mayotte,” Fabien Roussel, the national secretary of the PCF, was indignant on RMC for example.
Ditto or almost Manuel Bompard, of LFI, who declared on Sud Radio: “I find it quite astonishing that we consider that we can be Prime Minister of France and mayor of a big city like that of Pau.
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Even in his camp, criticism is being raised around this choice of Pau. The President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet affirmed on Franceinfo that she would have “preferred that the Prime Minister took the plane to Mayotte. Faced with such a catastrophe, it is important to be alongside the populations” and “in this type of circumstance, we must be 100% mobilized in crisis management”.
“Pau is in France”
Rare voice to come to the rescue of the Prime Minister, Hervé Marseille, the head of the centrist senators and defender of cumulation, judges that he “did what he had to do”. “Not everyone is going to land in Mayotte”, where Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau went on Monday and where Emmanuel Macron is expected in the coming days. The leaders of the archipelago “have other things to do than receive the authorities”, insisted the president of the UDI to our colleagues from Public Senate.
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François Bayrou himself reacted this Tuesday afternoon at the National Assembly during a question session with the government. He was the only one to respond, the rest of the government being considered to have resigned.
“You should not have gone to Pau to retain a mandate, but to the crisis meeting at the Élysée to assume your new role,” launched the head of the La France insoumise deputies, Mathilde Panot, when her socialist counterpart , Boris Vallaud, criticized him for having also taken advantage of it to promote “cumulative mandates”.
“Pau is in France” replied François Bayrou. “If I had been in a town hall in the 7th arrondissement, you would have considered it to be very good.” And to denounce “a rupture between the life of the province and the circle of powers in Paris”.
Rebelote Thursday?
Obviously, he never forgets Pau. Maybe too much now. At the LCP microphone, the environmentalist MP Cyrielle Chatelain, who met him in the morning to talk about the future government, said: “We come away extremely worried, destabilized. We were faced with a Prime Minister who spoke more about Pau than about France.”
And in Béarn, where the community council closely follows the municipal one – it takes place this Thursday, December 19, still at the town hall – we wonder if it will replay the same scenario when it has assured to combine its two local mandates. For the moment, the community assures that the council will be maintained, without knowing whether it will be held with or without its president. At the same time, we remember that during the health crisis, these meetings were held by videoconference, without disturbing the democratic debate too much.
