Fictional parliamentary assistants from Modem: relaxed, Bayrou evokes the end of a “seven-year nightmare”. “The court said (...) that there was no system, no personal enrichment,” rejoiced Monday the High Commissioner for Planning, president of the centrist party.

François Bayrou was suspected of having been the “ main decision-maker ” of an “ fraudulent system ” implemented between 2005 and 2017. Out of 150 European parliamentarians' contracts registered during this period, 10 are - and partially - in question.