the eternal recourse called to responsibilities

François Bayrou finally leaves purgatory. At 73, the president of MoDem, appointed prime minister by Emmanuel Macron on Friday December 13, accessed not the supreme consecration he had always dreamed of, the Elysée, but the floor just below. “Fate touches him with its wing”notes his friend Jean-Louis Bourlanges, former MoDem deputy for Hauts-de-Seine and old traveling companion.

It is an understatement to say that there was nothing obvious about this. It took an “earthquake”, the dissolution of the National Assembly on June 9, and a political cataclysm six months later, the fall of Michel Barnier’s government, for this historic support of Emmanuel Macron to finally gain access. to responsibilities. Until the last moment, his supporters feared an unfavorable scenario: the head of state first warned François Bayrou by telephone on Friday morning that he would not be appointed prime minister. Before receiving him at length at the Elysée, then finally changing his mind in the face of the possibility of a blockage and a break with his main ally, by deciding to appoint him to Matignon.

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