François Bayrou likes stories.
Those of Dumas, of Péguy, of the German writer Ernst Wiechert.
The classics professor has himself written around fifteen books.
On Monday, when he had just been personally acquitted in the affair of the European parliamentary assistants, he confided to a few close friends, including Emmanuel Macron who received him at the Élysée, his desire to return to the government.
Three decades after his time at National Education, “
it’s a nice story to tell
”, he says in the evening to the millions of viewers of France 2’s “20 Heures”.
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But the “
lovely story
” ended up turning into psychodrama.
During the forty-eight hours of talks at the top of the State, in the midst of negotiations around the reshuffle, François Bayrou noted that the Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, slowed down his arrival at the functions he was aiming for: Education or a Ministry of Tailor-made Simplification.
Acknowledging “
the absence of agreement on the policy to follow
”, the centrist announces…
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