François Bayrou begins his consultations this Monday in order to compose his government. Will the new Prime Minister succeed in bringing people together without being sanctioned? This is what Jean Carles Grelier wants. For the Sarthe MP, he must do it quickly because France is at a standstill.
François Bayrou begins his consultations this Monday morning in order to compose his government. The new Prime Minister receives the National Rally before meeting the other political parties except La France Insoumise which declined the invitation. It remains to be seen whether the new tenant of Matignon will succeed in putting together a team capable of coming together without being sanctioned. Jean Carles Grelier thinks so. The deputy for the 5th district of Sarthe who sits in the Assembly within the Democrats and Independents group under the banner of the right and the center is delighted with the appointment of François Bayrou. For him, the president of Modem is the man for the job but he must not delay forming his government. Because in the absence of a budget, all of France is at a standstill according to the Sarthe MP.
France Bleu Maine: What do you think of the appointment of François Bayrou as Prime Minister?
Jean Carles Grelier : I have thought for a very long time that François Bayrou is undoubtedly one of the only political figures to be totally and precisely at the barycenter of what the central bloc is, this bloc which brought Emmanuel Macron to the presidency of the Republic in 2017 , which goes from center-right to center-left, which brings together several old government families, in any case which governed France under the Fifth Republic. François Bayrou is the man of synthesis. And this is undoubtedly the first of his qualities. He is someone who throughout his political career, which is very long today, has given pledges to the right, given pledges to the left, has worked with some, has worked with others therefore it meets all the conditions so that we can govern this country with stability and serenity until 2027. We can no longer go from one political crisis to another every three months as has been the case since the failed dissolution of President of the Republic. It is urgent that we can find this stabilityiyou. I want to believe that François Bayrou has the qualities required for this.
It starts off badly. France Insoumise has already indicated that it had declined François Bayrou’s invitation. The National Rally is not yet threatening sanctions but is placing the future government under surveillance. Does it still seem complicated to form a united government?
Quite honestly, I think it’s not that complicated. You just have to get out of the postures. If La France Insoumise left its ideological and revolutionary postures, we would have made considerable progress. If the National Rally did the same on its side, we would also make real progress. At some point, these two political groups, which sometimes say they aspire to govern this country, must demonstrate that they are up to the responsibilities to which they claim. In the situation we are in today, the budgetary situation, the particularly difficult economic and social situation, the dramatic situation in Mayotte for example, France needs a government, needs time, needs a medium-term vision to be able to continue moving forward. The budgetary situation that we know today will not spare us from in-depth reforms and these reforms will have to be carried out. We cannot afford to wait for the next presidential election or to bet, as La France Insoumise is doing in a totally irresponsible manner, on a possible resignation of the President of the Republic and a new political crisis in order to move forward.
Speaking of compromise, are you ready, within the center-right bloc, to make concessions?
You know, we make these concessions locally, in Sarthe, usually in our municipal councils, we make them in the departmental council, we make them in our local assemblies. It does not seem impossible to me that we could do them on a national scale.
For example, is it possible to reconsider pension reform as some French people are demanding?
Coming back entirely on pension reform probably seems a bit illusory to me. I remind you that the financial stakes of the pension reform are absolutely enormous but on the other hand we can find adaptations, give more room to arduousness, to some subjects which perhaps deserve to be corrected, to be improved on reform. If we take the other scale of the political spectrum, not making the law on immigration an absolute seems to me to be a good starting compromise to find a capacity to govern with everyone. We will have to get used to this logic of compromise. I think that compromise is not compromise, compromise is not betrayal. It’s not necessarily the lowest common denominator either, it’s just the common rule that we all have to adopt and that we force ourselves to adopt in order to be able to govern this country.
In the meantime, companies are reducing their investments due to lack of prospects. Do you also see this in your constituency?
But of course. Since the dissolution last June, everything has come to a standstill because no one has any clarity on what is going to happen.
We waited 50 days for the appointment of Michel Barnier’s government. Some thought it was good policy to censor him after barely three months in office. France has no budget for 2025, social security has no budget and is uncertain about its future for 2025 and the years that follow. And we would like companies to continue to invest and believe in the future. This is why I plead that today, behind the unifying personality of François Bayrou, we try to take into consideration the general interest of this country. And the general interest is a little time, a little stability, a little serenity and some strong measures and some in-depth reforms so that we never again find ourselves at the bottom of the budgetary wall as we are today. today.
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