The Prime Minister also criticized for going to Pau in an expensive Falcon

Barely appointed to Matignon, François Bayrou (Modem) is already facing his first controversy. The new Prime Minister has chosen to remain mayor of Pau and president of the Pau Pyrénées urban community. And it was in FalconX that he went to the municipal council, Monday at 7 p.m., in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques prefecture.

A costly and unecological choice immediately denounced by the left. “Estimated cost for 2 hours of flight, around 12,000 euros, not including the cost of security and the accompanying team,” laments MP Sébastien Delogu (LFI). The Prime Minister was also criticized for going to Béarn rather than leading the crisis meeting for Mayotte in person.

A scheduled flight from Paris to Pau the same evening

“I never abuse the means of the State,” defends François Bayrou at the microphone of BFMTV. “Ministers, Prime Ministers and Presidents of the Republic are accompanied by security services […] It’s obviously easier than finding airliners,” he believes.

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In application of the Climate law, a decree published in Official Journal in May 2023 bans domestic flights for citizens, if a train journey of less than 2.5 hours is possible. This is not the case for a Paris-Pau On the other hand, The Dispatch checked the planes departing from Paris. An Air France flight took off from Roissy on Monday at 5:10 p.m. to arrive in Pau at 6:40 p.m. That is twenty minutes before the start of the municipal council.