According to our information, Emmanuel Macron is receiving François Bayrou for lunch this Thursday. After seeing the Renaissance President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, and before receiving his LR counterpart from the Senate, Gérard Larcher, the president plans to see his oldest ally… who is above all one of the names cited to replace Michel Barnier in Matignon. “He’s in the race,” confirms a Renaissance executive, immediately smiling: “Anyway, he’s still in the race.” »
Alongside Emmanuel Macron from the start, François Bayrou nonetheless made his own voice heard when he disagreed with the head of state's policies. He also maintains peaceful relations with Marine Le Pen. The head of the RN deputies appreciated the position of the Mayor of Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) after the prosecution's requisitions against him.
Invited on November 24 on BFMTV, the president of MoDem judged that the five-year sentence of ineligibility with provisional execution, demanded by the prosecution against Marine Le Pen, would be likely to “bias democratic life”. If François Bayrou does not share the “ideas” of the RN, he assumes: “I do not like injustice, even when it is done to my adversaries. »
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