“A crash”: for his first questions to the government, François Bayrou leaves the opposition perplexed

“It is not customary for the Prime Minister and the President of the Republic to leave the national territory at the same time.” This December 17, it is with these words that the new Prime Minister, François Bayrou, defended his presence at the municipal council of Pau in the midst of a disaster in Mayotte during QAG, the questions asked by the group presidents to the government. “ But Mayotte is a French department! “, the audience immediately reacted to the one who took more than a minute and forty minutes before discussing the fate of the Mahorais. However, he was expected on the subject.

If this region ravaged by Cyclone Chido is not on national territory, “we understand better why he preferred to attend the Pau municipal council”quips communist senator Ian Brossat on X (ex-Twitter), who describes these remarks as a real “shipwreck”.

“Perhaps he is a candidate to spend even less time at Matignon”

A mistake “major policy” Who “reveals a colonial and racist unthinking”, declares Stéphane Peu, PCF deputy, at the end of these heated exchanges in the National Assembly. For opponents of the president of the Democratic Movement (MoDem), the responses reveal his fragility and are not up to the standard of a Prime Minister. Everyone attended live at their own « crash »adds Éric Coquerel, president of the Finance Committee of the National Assembly, at the microphone of LCI. He is in “difficulty” and his “government will not end the winter”.

Compared to his predecessor, François Bayrou “achieves the feat of being even more of a minority in his position in the Assembly”, since he comes from a group which has 36 deputies compared to 43 for Michel Barnier, says Mathilde Panot (France Insoumise). “Perhaps he is a candidate to spend even less time at Matignon” than him. France “deserves better than this distressing spectacle caused by the omnipotence of President Macron”, adds her FI colleague, Clémence Guetté.

The tenant of Matignon missed his very first speech. A little earlier today, the Environmentalists were already gnashing their teeth. If François Bayrou wishes to demonstrate that the accumulation of mandates must be restored, “it’s a failure” : “the French remember that we need politicians to focus on one function at a time”, whispered Marine Tondelier late in the morning on X.