The music pavilion, the place the key scores of Matignon are performed | EUROtoday

“Why did you censor me? » This December 9, 2024, Michel Barnier, overthrown five days earlier by a motion of censure tabled in the National Assembly by the New Popular Front, honors, for his penultimate lunch as prime minister, a singular tête-à-tête with one of his assassins, François Hollande. “He explained to me that the Socialist Party [PS] had decided to give the thumbs down no matter what I did, confides Michel Barnier, during a telephone interview on January 16. The prime minister after the dissolution should, according to him, have been left-wing. »

This frank and direct confrontation between a short-lived head of government – ​​Michel Barnier only remained in office for three months and eight days – and a former president should not have been publicized. And for good reason, she stayed out of sight and out of earshot, at the very bottom of a large garden, in a stone building imbued with legends as she saw figures of the Republic secretly meeting there: the Matignon music pavilion.

This same pavilion also became, the following month, the scene of other confidential meetings: Michel Barnier’s successor, François Bayrou, in turn introduced three leaders of the PS there, the deputies Olivier Faure and Boris Vallaud with the senator Patrick Kanner. “To agree on what would allow us not to censor again”, specifies Boris Vallaud.

Eric Lombard, the Minister of the Economy, can be current: “The environment was not ordinary, he smiled. We had been on small sofas in a circle in entrance of a fireside, it was intimate. And that was an vital step earlier than the non-censorship settlement. » The secret assembly gave François Bayrou a number of months of respite, earlier than a misplaced vote of confidence, on September 8, 2025, compelled him in flip to desert his seat.

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