“François Bayrou has loaded dice in his hands” | EUROtoday

Lhe face of François Bayrou, twenty-eighth prime minister of the V^e République, is acquainted to the French. His profession is understood: native elected official in Béarn, minister of nationwide training within the Nineties, unsuccessful candidate within the presidential elections of 2002, 2007 and 2012, and kingmaker of the 2017 election – the story held up till then that he had introduced Emmanuel Macron into the Elysée whereas refraining from launching a fourth time within the race for head of state; What adopted for him was a short-lived stint at Place Vendôme as Keeper of the Seals. Here he’s, seven years later, forcing the hand of the tenant of Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré to maneuver to Rue de Varenne. Unlike lots of those that obtained ministerial positions beneath Emmanuel Macron, François Bayrou owes him nothing politically. But, if he now takes the title of head of presidency, the truth of his place is doubly biased by the need of the top of state and by the very private studying of the latter’s establishments.

Emmanuel Macron’s sixth prime minister, François Bayrou has loaded cube in his palms. Pipés, as a result of the Head of State has refused, since July, to translate into motion the results of the summer season’s legislative elections, throughout which the vast majority of French folks expressed their refusal to see the acute proper in energy and his need for an alternation in relation to the insurance policies pursued for seven years. Once once more, the coalition that got here out on high on the finish of this election (the New Popular Front) was not referred to as upon by the Head of State to type a authorities, in defiance of institutional logic and regardless of the teachings that he ought to have drawn from a historic censorship, solely the second within the historical past of the V^e Republic.

However, the dissatisfaction expressed by the mayor of Pau with regard to a number of the presidential selections can’t masks the apparent: way more than an extension of Macronism, François Bayrou is its origin. Since the start of the 2000s, he has taken up the place “neither left nor right” which Emmanuel Macron then adopted. The present President of the Republic theorized on this foundation a “progressivism” imagined to disqualify all selections diverging from one’s personal line, particularly via unexpectedly and presumptuously indictments of irresponsibility in opposition to political tasks defending the reestablishment of tax justice, the French social mannequin and the strengthening of the means and presence of companies public. In different phrases, François Bayrou, who has positioned members of his political celebration in all governments since 2017, can’t in any method embody alternation. Which has a easy consequence: François Bayrou, prime minister, by no means attracts his legitimacy from the poll packing containers.

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