MoDem deputy Jean-Louis Bourlanges accuses François Bayrou of “weakening” the centrist party. Hauts-de-Seine parliamentarian judges the strategy of the mayor of Pau “politically inept” and “morally degrading” Bayrou tried to justify his surprise decision in front of his troops, denouncing the “humiliation process” of which he says he is the victim.

Faced with the risk of an open crisis in the MoDem, which has 51 deputies, the former Minister of Justice tried to calm things down this Thursday.