Describing its impermeability to “discouragement” and his “desire to fight the battle”, François Bayrou, in his book French resolutionin 2017, borrowed from Turenne, “at the moment of entering the fray”, this formula: “You’re shaking, carcass, but if you knew where I’m going to take you, you’d be shaking even more!” When he delivers his general policy declaration this Tuesday, January 14 at the National Assembly, a month after forcing the doors of Matignon, he will really need to mobilize his indomitable optimist temperament. We remember Michel Barnier, who appeared on October 1, at the podium of the hemicycle in a heavy silence. The centrist leader, although he will be able to count on the ovation of his faithful Modem deputies, is not sitting in a larger coalition. If he failed to expand the “base” of his supporters, will he manage to restrict the number of his potential censors, and ensure his survival longer than the three months held by his predecessor?
