“François Bayrou has strengths in his game” | EUROtoday

Gilles Richard is president of the French Society of Political History and professor emeritus of up to date historical past at Rennes-II University. He wrote History of the UDF (with Jean-François Sirinelli and Sylvie Guillaume, Presses universitaire de Rennes, 2013) and History of the rights in France. From 1815 to the current (Perrin, 2017).

Does François Bayrou have an opportunity of placing an finish to the present political impasse and discovering majorities in Parliament permitting him to behave?

No one can say it, however he has property in his recreation. He is in a position to withstand Emmanuel Macron as a result of he has a protracted political expertise and has the immense benefit, in comparison with the president, of getting good information political forces, the electoral map and even society.

He constructed his “centrist” place a very long time in the past. He established relationships with the correct inside the framework of the UDF and with the left, at the very least of their socialist and ecological variations. Finally, he took unique positions: he didn’t approve the legislation on pensions in 2023; he introduced his signature to Marine Le Pen, through the 2022 presidential election, to “save democracy”, he mentioned; he’s for proportional… All these parts make him a posh character.

He has a Christian Democratic political tradition cast all through his political profession within the teams ensuing from the Popular Republican Movement, of which his father was an area elected official. The Christian Democrats have all the time been essentially the most constant in claiming to be on the “center”, a legacy of the social doctrine of a Church involved with reconciling bosses and employees. Imbued with this custom, Bayrou is able to compromising with one camp or the opposite. But how he’ll use these property, nobody but is aware of.

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