The announcement shook the already fragile presidential majority.
Tipped to take the head of a ministry, François Bayrou disconcerted his camp with an about-face on Wednesday.
The mayor of Pau has indicated his refusal to join the new government of Gabriel Attal, due to lack
of “deep agreement on the policy to follow”
.
A manifest revolt which reshuffles the cards of the relative majority, made up of 51 precious MoDem deputies.
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“I want to say to him “Welcome to the opposition Mr. Bayrou”
,” quipped Olivier Marleix on Franceinfo this Thursday.
“It's been about seven years now that he has unconditionally supported the political action of the President of the Republic.
And all of a sudden, he discovers that he is in deep disagreement on the Macron/Attal line
,” whistled the leader of the Les Républicains (LR) deputies.
“An unworthy reshuffle”
While the second wave of nominations continues to be postponed due to laborious negotiations, Olivier Marleix despairs of a
“fairly unworthy”
reshuffle .
“I hate this political life where politicians (...) give the feeling of looking at their navel
,” he tackles.
“We are a month and a half away from cinema, theater around a ministerial reshuffle while, in the meantime, you have Mayotte which is in an almost insurrectional situation, you have an unprecedented housing crisis.. .”,
unfolds the deputy for Eure-et-Loir.
And to brush aside
“the ego problems”
of the executive:
“That’s the reality of the country, it’s not the cinema of Mr. Bayrou and his moods. »
On TF1, Xavier Bertrand announces
“a major political crisis”
.
“One of the pillars of the majority clearly shows that he is no longer in phase with the executive
,” he declared.
“
We cannot continue for three years like this
,” said the president of the Hauts-de-France region impatiently.
While François Bayrou justified his decision by
“the gulf that has opened up between the province and Paris”
, Xavier Bertrand followed suit.
“
The government must stop despising the province
,” he exclaimed.
For the boss of LR senators, Bruno Retailleau, François Bayrou's exit is akin to "
a rupture"
which marks "
the end of Emmanuel Macron's five-year term"
.