It was simply 5 p.m. this Friday, December 13, when the brand new Prime Minister, François Bayrou, crossed alone, one hand in his coat pocket, his gaze just a little misplaced, throughout the courtyard of the Hôtel de Matignon. He is getting back from the funeral of his good friend Jean-Pierre Rioux, historian and member of MoDem since its creation, which happened just a little earlier within the Saint-Jean de Montmartre church, in Paris.
Michel Barnier, who had the pink carpet rolled out for his successor within the morning with out realizing who would take it, or at what time, is ready for the Béarnais, in a “invigorating freshness”he’ll say in his transient handover speech. “I knew from the first day, September 5, that my government’s time was limited”stated the Savoyard, sufferer of a movement of censure voted by “an unlikely alliance” between the New Popular Front and the National Rally (RN), however “politics cannot be reduced to a field of maneuvers, in a sort of private space from which citizens are excluded”he warns when passing the baton.
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