"A mayor is not a partisan issue" and the municipal "can not be reduced to a fight of labels," warned Sunday François Bayrou, the boss of the MoDem, to leaders and activists of The Republic in walk to Bordeaux. Partners in the majority, LREM and MoDem show several differences in some municipalities in view of the municipal elections in March, particularly with regard to the question of investitures.
"A mayor is not a political function, it can not be reduced to a fight of labels.
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"A mayor is not a partisan issue"
"A mayor is not a partisan issue, it's something else," said François Bayrou. "It is a personality, an attention to his fellow citizens, a vision, it can not be reduced to a fight of labels", he continued, in conclusion of the "Campus of the territories" of LREM, sort of party summer university held throughout the weekend in Bordeaux.
In this city formerly run by Alain Juppé, MoDem and Macronists have their division: the presidential troops have invested Thomas Cazenave, while the party of Francois Bayrou anointed the outgoing Nicolas Florian, successor of Alain Juppé.
"Mayor, it's not a political function"
"We have deadlines in front of us, they can provoke debates between us, these debates are normal and salutary", also affirmed the mayor of Pau and ephemeral guard of the Seals of Emmanuel Macron.
"Mayor, it is not a political function, in a way, like the presidential office, these two functions alone have a direct, personal, human link with the community of those who elect them", still supported François Bayrou.
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Therefore, according to the centrist leader, "if we wanted to turn the municipal election into an election of party clashes, we would betray the vision we developed before the French, the idea that legitimacy is rooted and comes not always from the top ". "If we choose to turn the municipal election into an apparatus-versus-apparatus election, then we would be sure to lose," he further prophesied.