"Why not," said Jean Castex this Wednesday morning at the microphone of RMC-BFMTV. While rumors of a nomination of François Bayrou at the head of a High Commission for Planning are going well, the main party has not, at this stage, been approached. "There is nothing formally acted on, but it is progressing," said a ministerial adviser.
While François Bayrou himself confides to the Parisian that he has not had any proposals at this stage. "But I have always argued for the construction of a High Commission for Planning," he acknowledges, recalling that this idea was already exposed in his book "French Resolution" "(Ed. L'Observatoire) in 2017. “We used to have a General Planning Commission. The first commissioner was Jean Monnet. This shows the authority and prestige that attached to this function, "he wrote for example in a chapter devoted to strategy.
Within the MoDem, this appointment, which would sign the return of François Bayrou to the government after his brief stint in Justice in 2017, would mark a major return to the national level. But beware: according to sources very close to the Béarnais, François Bayrou is not at all sure to accept if he was offered it. "He will necessarily set certain conditions," explains a friend of the mayor of Pau, including a direct connection of this police station to the Elysée. Because it is a long-term subject, and the long term is the responsibility of the President of the Republic. "