Established by Gaston Defferre, Minister of the Interior under François Mitterrand, at the beginning of the 1980s, the traditional breakfast preceding the first council of ministers of the year, Place Beauvau, took on an exceptional character on Friday January 3: it was opportunity, for 34 ministers of the Bayrou government – that of foreign affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot, traveling to Syria, was excused – to meet almost in full force for the first time, eleven days after their appointment.
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In the Erignac lounge of the Ministry of the Interior, the ministers are not seated at the table, but they move from small group to small group, a hot drink in hand. A formula that is intended to be friendly, for a team made up of personalities from the left, the right and the center that François Bayrou wants to see “union”car, “If we are united, then we can probably move a number of the obstacles that are in front of us”.
Black scarf around his neck and microphone in hand, the Prime Minister is delighted with this government “composed of more than half of local elected officials”or as many personalities “rooted”insists the mayor of Pau. “In such a tormented and upsetting moment”Michel Barnier's successor at Matignon also wants, he says, a team “courageous”. Car “there is a way” to get out of “this period of instability”assures François Bayrou to his ministers, “it is even better defined than we think”. But he is careful not to specify its contours.
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