“He reminds me of Joe Biden,” squeaks environmentalist deputy Benjamin Lucas

His first steps were highly scrutinized. Less than a week after his appointment to Matignon, François Bayrou took on the role of prime minister a little more this Tuesday afternoon in the Assembly by answering “questions to the government” for more than an hour. While the Béarnais is under fire for having chosen to go to Pau on Monday in the middle of the crisis in Mayotte, he clumsily defended himself.

If the president of MoDem promised not to leave any challenge “no response”he justified his non-departure for the poorest territory in the country by the desire not to stick to the trip of Emmanuel Macron, who will go there on Thursday. And to affirm that it is “of use” that the two figures at the head of state “do not leave the national territory at the same time”thereby forgetting that Mayotte is indeed a French department. Enough to irritate the opposition, and in particular the left which does not intend to give gifts to the new host of the rue de Varenne.

“He didn’t know where he was.”

Guest of BFMTV, the environmentalist deputy Benjamin Lucas shared in this regard his “stupefaction”. “Not knowing whether to go fast or slow”in reference to the singular rate of speech of François Bayrou, the parliamentarian of the New Popular Front (NFP) regrets that the Prime Minister ultimately did not “nothing had to say”. Then allowed himself a daring comparison between Michel Barnier’s successor and the current American president: “He reminds me of Joe Biden”.

The Democratic leader having been forced to withdraw from the race for the White House in the summer of 2024 after a series of errors and absences, against the backdrop of growing concerns about his state of health, the elected official of the French left scathed the posture of François Bayrou, whose “It seemed like he didn’t really know where he was.” “He told us about his life, he made some blunders, it’s still very limited, he was excessively defensive when talking about Pau”he pointed out again. These first steps were all the more complicated for the Prime Minister as he found himself alone facing the national representation, in the absence of a full-fledged government.