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François Bayrou addresses the press after a meeting with the members of the collective of victims of violence of Notre-Dame-de-Bétharram and his spokesperson Alain Esquerre (right), at the town hall of Pau, on February 15, 2025.

Will François Bayrou handle to extract, Wednesday, May 14, the eddies of the Betharram affair, wherein he has been getting slowed down since February? The Prime Minister can be auditioned on Wednesday by the National Assembly Commission of Inquiry on violence in faculties, on the acts of psychological, bodily or sexual violence dedicated for 50 years on this non-public Catholic institution in Béarn. After months of unconvincing, even contradictory responses on this “State scandal”, Dixit his entourage, who touches him as carefully as potential, since his eldest daughter is among the many victims, the Prime Minister takes the factor severely and is rigorously getting ready, taking a look at “Everything that has been said and written” on that “#MeToo of national education”in accordance with the phrase of the Minister of National Education, Elisabeth Borne.

Accused of getting lied to the nationwide illustration, he can be heard underneath oath by the deputies. His essential enemy, throughout this high-risk listening to, will himself be, concern his kin, because the president of the modem could be unpredictable. “He must not get angry”sighs Marc Fesneau, president of the Modem group within the National Assembly.

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