NARRATIVE – The LR demanded a telephone interview with François Bayrou before deciding on their participation in the government.
There is no question, for the right, of buying a cat in a bag. On Friday, the Republicans upped the ante until the last minute before deciding on their participation in the government as part of a global “non-censorship” pact. If François Bayrou had requested a response at midday, before deciding, the LR demanded a telephone interview with the Prime Minister – which had not yet taken place on Friday at 10 p.m. -, to find out his prior commitments. However, if he delayed in contacting the two leaders of the parliamentary right, Laurent Wauquiez (National Assembly) and Mathieu Darnaud (Senate), the Prime Minister had attracted the goodwill of part of the LR when he said he wanted to install leaders of political parties within his government. Result, even if the right displayed a certain inflexibility on its demands, few people went so far as to imagine a failure of…
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