François Bayrou is seeking a second term in Pau. - ERIC FEFERBERG / AFP

François Bayrou, an ally of the presidential majority, said on Tuesday that he did not envisage entering government. "It is not a hypothesis and it is not my hypothesis", affirmed on LCI the one who was briefly Minister of Justice at the beginning of the quinquennium before leaving the government on bottom of business of the European parliamentary assistants of the MoDem .

"I am mayor of Pau, candidate for the renewal of this mandate", and "I am at the head of a political family which counts in French political life and I do not intend to enter into government speculation ", He developed. François Bayrou argued, however, that the executive "reinvent itself".

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"No. It is not a hypothesis, and it is not my hypothesis"

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“He must reinvent the link between society and the state, between the country in its communities, in its life, from associations to businesses and local communities. There is a sap that no longer flows from the base with the top of the country, "he said.

A “brutal and unfounded” decision about Gérard Collomb

The mayor of Pau also assured that "the loyalty ties" between Emmanuel Macron and Gérard Collomb, who had his investiture removed by LREM at the municipal elections in Lyon after having concluded an agreement with LR, were "not broken "

LREM has withdrawn its investiture from Gérard Collomb and his foal candidate for mayor of Lyon Yann Cucherat, behind which the right-wing candidate Étienne Blanc will step aside. A decision according to him "brutal and unfounded". Gérard Collomb is "a great mayor of Lyon" and François-Noël Buffet is "someone absolutely respectable", said François Bayrou.

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  • Deconfinement
  • Covid 19
  • Reshuffle
  • Coronavirus
  • Emmanuel Macron
  • François Bayrou
  • Government