The rag burns between François Bayrou and his troops, after the refusal of the mayor of Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) to enter the government.
“The MoDem is in complete incoherence.
François Bayrou decided without any consultation with anyone to display a fundamental disagreement with the presidential majority
,” thundered Jean-Louis Bourlanges, one of the heavyweights of the MoDem, in a press release published this Thursday morning on X.
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François Bayrou had only warned a handful of close friends before his thunderclap to the AFP at the start of the evening, noting the impossibility of finding a
“deep agreement on the policy to follow”
and his refusal to join the government
.
Since his acquittal in the parliamentary assistants affair on Monday, the High Commissioner for Planning was at the heart of intense negotiations to expand the list of ministers.
“If we were really not satisfied with the place offered to us, it would have been possible to provide support without participation.
We are choosing the opposite: participation without support
,” pointed out Jean-Louis Bourlanges, while the centrists only have one position in government with Marc Fesneau at the Ministry of Agriculture.
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The strategy adopted by Emmanuel Macron's historic ally
“amounts to dangerously weakening our camp while discrediting ourselves
,” continued the MoDem deputy for Hauts-de-Seine.
Before asserting:
“It’s politically inept and morally degrading.”
Wednesday evening, François Bayrou tried to justify his surprise decision in front of his troops, denouncing the
“humiliation process”
of which he says he is the victim.
He who makes no secret of his reservations about the right-wing of the executive, not hesitating to describe it as the
“RPR government”
.
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 on Franceinfo.
“
Yes, we are full members of the majority that wants to rebuild the country
,” he assured, brushing aside a possible implosion of the presidential camp.