Paris (AFP)

"It goes without saying that François Bayrou remains president of the MoDem and mayor of Pau, said the chairman of the group of MoDem MPs Patrick Mignola, assuring his support" unwavering "the party boss, indicted Friday in the the case of MEPs' assistants.

"I even hope that he will be re-elected mayor of Pau, but that, it will be up to the voters to decide," added Mr. Mignola on France info.

The president of the group in the Assembly has brought "a personal and indefectible support to François Bayrou", because "the MoDem needs him, the majority needs him" and "the country needs him, because needs his voice ".

"François Bayrou did not put a penny in his pocket, it's not the kind of house" and "he has his own personal ethics for him," he added, assuring that "the whole life of François is a person, a style, where everything has been based on total integrity ".

For his part Marc Fesneau, Minister MoDem in charge of Relations with the Parliament, said on Twitter "the friendship and the solidarity." In a message quoting François Bayrou and Marielle de Sarnez, the vice-president of the party also put in review Wednesday.

"I know their sense of the general interest and I know, like all the Modem, what we owe them and their place in the French political life," he added.

On the right the comments were less friendly, the deputy LR Vaucluse Julien Aubert affirming on Twitter: "To plague Druon in + the cursed kings +: + he was punished by where he had sinned +"

"Bayrou maker of kings ... cursed in his turn", abounded on Twitter the LR deputy of Bouches-du-Rhone Valerie Boyer, mocking "Bayrou self-proclaimed pope of virtue".

Bayrou was indicted Friday in Paris for complicity in embezzlement of public funds in the survey of assistants of MoDem MEPs, lawsuits that could weaken his position in the presidential majority.

Prior to the indictment, Stanislas Guerini, General Delegate of LREM, had said his "confidence" and "admiration" in Mr. Bayrou, who "devoted a good part of his political life to advance the issue of probity in The political life".

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