François Bayrou faces the challenge of forming a government with a broader base

Already, the first dizziness. During the transfer of power on the steps of Matignon, Friday December 13, François Bayrou, 73, looking serious, declared, alongside his predecessor Michel Barnier, that he “know nothing of the Himalayas that lie before us, of difficulties of all kinds”. This image of a bumpy rise took on its full meaning during the first days of the centrist, Rue de Varenne. A summary of pressing crises and emergencies.

The specter of the financial and economic crisis, with the downgrading of the French rating by the Moody’s agency just hours after the appointment of the mayor of Pau. Climate crisis and humanitarian disaster, with the devastating passage of Cyclone Chido on the island of Mayotte, Saturday December 14, leaving the poorest department in France in a state of desolation. The death toll, which could be counted “in hundreds or thousands”, according to the prefect of the archipelago, hastened the resigning Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, and that of Overseas, François-Noël Buffet to go, Monday, December 16, to the 101st French department, nestled in the Indian Ocean.

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