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François Bayrou lastly leaves purgatory. At 73, the president of MoDem, appointed prime minister by Emmanuel Macron on Friday December 13, accessed not the supreme consecration he had all the time dreamed of, the Elysée, however the ground slightly below. “Fate touches him with its wing”notes his buddy Jean-Louis Bourlanges, former MoDem deputy for Hauts-de-Seine and previous touring companion.

It is an understatement to say that there was nothing apparent about this. It took an “earthquake”, the dissolution of the National Assembly on June 9, and a political cataclysm six months later, the autumn of Michel Barnier’s authorities, for this historic help of Emmanuel Macron to lastly acquire entry. to tasks. Until the final second, his supporters feared an unfavorable state of affairs: the pinnacle of state first warned François Bayrou by phone on Friday morning that he wouldn’t be appointed prime minister. Before receiving him at size on the Elysée, then lastly altering his thoughts within the face of the potential of a blockage and a break along with his most important ally, by deciding to nominate him to Matignon.

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