For François Bayrou, the fragile transition from commentator to central actor in French political life | EUROtoday

François Bayrou insisted on it. In Lyon, within the Saint-Jean cathedral bathed in mild, the Prime Minister is within the entrance row for the funeral of Anne-Marie Comparini, Saturday January 11. The demise per week earlier of the previous president of the Rhône-Alpes area, on the age of 77, marks the tip of an period for the president of MoDem.

This trustworthy pal of Béarnais has lengthy been one of many uncommon faces of triumphant centrism. UDF deputy to mayor Raymond Barre, deputy for Rhône, she obtained the pinnacle of the area in 1999, because of the rallying of the left towards Charles Millon, who had compromised a yr earlier by accepting the votes of the National Front. “That I find myself in this responsibility at the moment when she makes her last journey, (…) it makes sense »confides the Christian Democrat after leaving the ceremony.

In the cathedral, François Bayrou came forward, alone, to deliver the funeral eulogy of his “dear Anne-Marie”, who has “was able to provide a framework for the region, by making dialogue, negotiation, the necessary steps towards one another, the keys to maintaining and balancing action”, he declared in entrance of the Lyon elite and two of his ministers (Patrick Mignola and François Noël-Buffet).

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