“I would have preferred that the Prime Minister, instead of taking a plane to Pau, took a plane to Mamoudzou”, criticizes Yaël Braun-Pivet

“In this type of circumstance, we must be 100% mobilized to manage the crisis,” said the President of the National Assembly.

The new Prime Minister François Bayrou has been strongly criticized since Monday for his participation in the Pau municipal council in the midst of the crisis in Mayotte.“I would actually have preferred that the Prime Minister, instead of taking a plane to Pau, took a plane to Mamoudzou,” criticized Tuesday, December 17 Yaël Braun-Pivet, president of the National Assembly, on franceinfo.

“In this type of circumstance, we must be 100% mobilized to manage the crisis”affirmed the President of the National Assembly, while the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau is on site and the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron is attending at Place Beauvau a briefing of the security forces and civil security in particular.

François Bayrou chaired the Pau municipal council on Monday evening, of which he intends to remain mayor, and defended the accumulation of mandates. Yaël Braun-Pivet would like to emphasize that “this is not the right time” to talk about this subject while there is “budget, Mayotte, and all the problems of the French” to be treated as a priority, “access to care, farmers…”lists the President of the National Assembly, recalling that she is “against the accumulation of mandates”considering “that when one exercises a function, one must exercise it full time.” “I am against the accumulation of mandates and I think that we should not put this subject back on the table, it is really not the time”, repeats the chosen one Renaissance.

On France 2 Tuesday,he first secretary of the Socialist Party Olivier Faure also affirmed that “the Prime Minister's place was not in Pau last night, the priority is Mayotte”. He believes that François Bayrou “goes astray”. “This obsession with the accumulation of mandates cannot be a priority today.”