In Blois, François Bayrou wants to open “a new page” of economic policy. While the accounts are in the red, the public deficit should even exceed 5.5%.

“It is a lack of respect and the elementary duty that we owe to the generations who will follow us,” he thundered, after being re-elected without surprise at the head of his movement. “Priority to investment, to activity, to the reduction of standards, to simplification,” the founder of MoDem simply insisted.