Bayrou in Matignon or the revenge of the Christian Democrats | EUROtoday
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” HASdistressing. » Nicolas Sarkozy’s final judgment on the appointment of François Bayrou to Matignon is a continuation of the execrable relations that these two heavyweights of French politics have maintained for decades. Let us recall that after his success in the first round of the 2007 presidential election (18.5% of the votes), the centrist did not call for voting either for Ségolène Royal or for Nicolas Sarkozy, and that in 2012 he was outright pronounced in favor of François Hollande against the outgoing president.
There is clearly a conflict between two tempestuous and contradictory ambitions. But additionally, in subtext, the conflict between two political traditions which, because the finish of the Second World War, have been arguing on the French political scene.
https://www.lepoint.fr/histoire/bayrou-a-matignon-ou-la-revanche-des-democrates-chretiens-17-12-2024-2578241_1615.php