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You should never annoy Jean-Louis Bourlanges.
François Bayrou learned this the hard way last week, when the boss of the MoDem centrists indicated that his lack of
“deep agreement”
with part of the policy pursued by Emmanuel Macron and Gabriel Attal had led him to refuse to enter government.
“I learned that evening that I had a fundamental disagreement with the President of the Republic,”
laments the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly, faced with a fait accompli like the other elected officials. of MoDem.
But what especially infuriated the Hauts-de-Seine MP was the way in which François Bayrou told his troops, the day after his press release, in a dinner organized at the Ministry of Agriculture, that despite his coup de sang, they could enter the government if they wished.
He saw a kind of contempt there that he couldn't stand.
Long-time friend of the centrist leader…
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