François Bayrou declares himself in favor of a resumption of the talk on the query | EUROtoday

Should we name François Bayrou “Mr. Mayor or Mr. Prime Minister” ? To this query which was requested to him, Monday, December 16, by a journalist, the brand new tenant of Matignon, who stays town councilor of Pau, stated, with a smile, that he most popular the primary choice as a result of “it’s a more durable title”.

Mr. Bayrou then left the municipal council of town of Pyrénées-Atlantique, throughout which he had relaunched the talk on the re-authorization of the buildup of mandates for parliamentarians, for which he stated he was in favor

“We made a mistake in [rendant] incompatible local and national responsibilities, it is an error (…) For members of the government, it is authorized, for parliamentarians, no. I think this debate needs to be resumed”declared Mr. Bayrou through the session, specifying that he would ask this query in his common coverage speech.

“I can imagine it without the addition of compensation”he then added to the press. “I will suggest to future members of my government to keep their mandates and I will suggest to others [d’avoir] a small antenna on the ground »said Mr. Bayrou again in front of the elected representatives of Pau.

He had already remained mayor during his mandate in justice in 2017

The head of government justified his position “by the rupture between the base of French society (…) and those in power”This “wall of glass” who nourishes “a deep distrust of the political world, all parties combined”. “We must reroot political responsibilities, in villages, neighborhoods, cities”he insisted, citing the examples of Pierre Mauroy in Lille, Gaston Defferre in Marseille, Jacques Chaban-Delmas and Alain Juppé in Bordeaux, and even Jacques Chirac in Paris and Corrèze.

François Bayrou, who will give a common delegation to his first deputy, had already retained his mandate as mayor when he was briefly minister of justice in 2017. The regulation doesn’t prohibit a member of the federal government from remaining mayor, solely parliamentarians. However, a lot of his predecessors at Matignon have deserted their place as first councilor, equivalent to not too long ago Jean Castex in 2020 or Édouard Philippe in 2017.

The Pau opposition criticized the selection of Mr. Bayrou, believing that it was not “irreplaceable” in Pau. “Our city needs a mayor who is present every day and involved in issues”launched the socialist Jérôme Marbot, whereas the ecologist Jean-François Blanco criticized him for his participation within the municipal council, believing that his place “was in Paris or Mayotte” – the French abroad division having suffered the devastating passage of a cyclone – and {that a} native mandate “must not be a basis for fallback”.