François Bayrou admits it. He likes people “a little kamikaze”, as he described Manuel Valls, just appointed minister for overseas territories. But “in the situation we are in, there are certain precautions that would paralyze us”justifies the Prime Minister, Monday December 23 on BFM-TV.
A bit pensive, on this evening before Christmas, the president of the MoDem rushes headlong towards danger, sure of succeeding where his predecessor, Michel Barnier, failed. The mayor of Pau firmly believes in it. The list of “very experienced personalities” who form his government, revealed a few hours earlier, around 6:30 p.m., by the secretary general of the Elysée, Alexis Kohler, will allow him to confront “the most difficult situation we have experienced since the war”. Cet « Himalaya » that the centrist described upon his appointment on December 13. “I am convinced that the action that I define before you and the government team will ensure that we will not be censored,” he proclaims, without giving more details on this alleged martingale.
After ten days of sometimes public, often secret negotiations, a few twists and turns and a bit of suspense, the Prime Minister succeeded in one thing: meeting his deadline. His government succeeded “before Christmas”, as he had promised.
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