Like Emmanuel Macron, François Bayrou wants a "change of method".
But in his own way.
Invited by BFM TV this Sunday in particular to bounce back on the interview with the President of the Republic granted yesterday to AFP, the High Commissioner for Planning gave his vision of the developments that the macronie must take to govern, without an absolute majority.
Parliamentary blockage: "We are at the time of a compulsory transfer", estimates François Bayrou pic.twitter.com/h2dQjRktjb
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“We lived according to a principle that everything is pyramidal, everything is decided up there, the government decides and the parliament votes for it.
It's finish.
The time of Parliament, the recording chamber, is over, ”says the strong man of the MoDem, noting a message that the French would have sent by not granting an absolute majority to Emmanuel Macron.
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“The previous practice was to form majorities to support the president's project (…) you have to form teams capable of carrying a project discussed with parliamentarians before being presented.
Return to the foundation of the Fifth Republic”, estimated the one who has long defended the proportional to the legislative elections, for whom the moment is at the “mandatory transfer”.
“France is governable”
In what form ?
While Elisabeth Borne is looking for new ministers to form a "government of action" planned for the beginning of July, on instructions from the president, Bayrou confides that she does not believe "in negotiations to make apparatus agreements".
And to specify "I do not imagine political forces elected in the opposition entering the majority".
It will therefore be "government of goodwill", "a majority of ideas" in perpetual recomposition, far from any "bargaining", he tries to reassure the one who is sometimes considered a heavy ally of Emmanuel Macron, in front of journalists who have struggled to make him specify who he is thinking of in order to enrich the majority.
Without success.
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Macron wants "constructive majorities" with "all government parties"
“France is governable”, all the same gauged the centrist.
“Together has more than 110 more seats than the first opposition bloc,” he explains on the BFM TV set.
An Assembly far from certain particularly fragmented European parliaments, therefore.
Still, it will be necessary to “consult and dialogue”, to show that the message sent by the French to the legislative elections has been heard, repeats the High Commissioner.
Without ever venturing to list the red lines, where the appointments necessary for this "change of method" that he hammered home this Sunday.