Xavier Bertrand's entourage said they were “heartbroken” this Monday evening that Prime Minister François Bayrou “resorted to lies” to justify his absence from the government. The Prime Minister rejected any “influence” of Marine Le Pen in the composition of his government.
Xavier Bertrand's entourage said they were “heartbroken” this Monday, December 23, that Prime Minister François Bayrou “resorted to lies.” The president of the Hauts-de-France region should speak soon on this subject, again according to his entourage.
The name of Xavier Bertrand has been circulating for a long time to join the new government, the composition of which was announced this Monday evening. But ultimately the elected official from Hauts-de-France did not become minister, at the end of a day during which the two men defended their version of the facts.
Bayrou assures that Le Pen “has no influence” on his government
On BFMTV this Monday, François Bayrou explained that Xavier Bertrand did not join his government, in particular because of his “violent” posture and his different vision of justice. François Bayrou claims to have offered him the Ministry of Agriculture.
The case of Xavier Bertrand is particularly thorny, particularly with regard to the National Rally. On the morning of Monday, Jean-Philippe Tanguy, deputy of the far-right party, estimated that the arrival of the president of Hauts-de-France would be “a very bad sign for the political line he wants to follow. “
Earlier in the evening, via a press release published shortly before the announcement of the composition of the government, Xavier Bertrand himself announced that he would not join the government of François Bayrou.
“The Prime Minister informed me this morning, contrary to what he had proposed to me yesterday (Sunday, editor's note), that he was no longer able to entrust me with responsibility for the Ministry of Justice due to the opposition of the National Rally”, writes the elected representative Les Républicains (LR).
The president of the Hauts-de-France region assured that despite the Prime Minister's “new proposals”, he “refuses to participate in a government of France formed with the approval of Marine Le Pen”. On this point, François Bayrou responded, assuring that Marine Le Pen “has no influence” on the composition of her government.
