François Bayrou sows doubt within the former presidential majority

We promise, we won't take it again. While Gabriel Attal had increased his warnings against Michel Barnier, the secretary general of Renaissance has been particularly discreet since François Bayrou joined Matignon. “They don’t put obstacles in our way, which is a form of support in politics,” says MoDem spokesperson, Bruno Millienne.

But each day that passes without a government exposes the Prime Minister a little more to criticism from his own camp. The outgoing ministers note with freshness that the new tenant of Matignon does not get attached to them, or very little. This negligence irritates them all the more since the septuagenarian, according to them, looks kindly at “men of a certain time” – like the president of Dijon Métropole, François Rebsamen, or the former minister of health of Nicolas Sarkozy and president of the Hauts-de-France region, Xavier Bertrand – to whom he would have promised the portfolios of their choice.

Its strategy of poaching “experienced personalities” identified on the right and left by the French, in order to force the parties not to censor it, sows doubt. “I can see right-wing personalities like Bruno Retailleau, but who is a sufficient icon on the left not to be censorable by the Socialist Party [PS] ? », asks doubtfully François Patriat, the president of the Renaissance senators, himself a former socialist.

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