The boss of the PS Olivier Faure castigated Tuesday “a form of absolute contempt“, expressing indignation that the composition of the Bayrou government could have been revealed on Monday, at the same time as a day of mourning was observed for Mayotte, ravaged by cyclone Chido. “Yesterday was a day of national mourning, and what everyone could see was that even this day of mourning was not respected.
For what other French department would we have agreed not to go to the end of the day and to saturate the broadcasts from the evening on the appointment of a new government?“Olivier Faure was annoyed on RMC-BFMTV.”Was anyone really expecting this government? Was anyone saying to themselves, +it is absolutely imperative to spend Christmas with this new government?+ The answer is no“, continued the First Secretary of the Socialist Party, before asking: “Is it because it's far? Is it because these people aren't completely white?“
“If today, in Paris, there had been a climatic catastrophe and you had to mourn hundreds, even thousands of deaths, would we have accepted for a single moment that this day which was to be that of “a day of national mourning, be dedicated to a new government?”, he said. Prime Minister François Bayrou estimated Monday evening that the number of deaths after the passage of Cyclone Chido in Mayotte would be in “tens” and not “thousands” and would be much lower than the “alarmist figures” put forward. A statement that “surprised” and “shocked” Olivier Faure. Official figures currently show a provisional toll of 35 dead and around 2,500 injured. But the prefect of Mayotte estimated on December 15, shortly after the cyclone, that the disaster had “certainly caused several hundred” deaths in Mayotte, “perhaps” even “a few thousand.
