2024-12-16 23:17:00
We should call François Bayrou “Mr Mayor or Mr Prime Minister” ? To this question posed to him by a journalist on Monday 16 December, the new tenant of Matignon, who remains a municipal councilor of Pau, said, with a smile, that he prefers the first option because “it is a more durable title”.
Mr Bayrou then left the city council of the Pyrenees-Atlantiques city, during which he had relaunched the debate on the reauthorization of the multiple mandates of parliamentarians, for which he had said he was in favor
“We made a mistake [rendant] incompatible local and national responsibilities, it is a mistake (…) For members of the government it is authorized, for parliamentarians it is not. I think this debate needs to be restarted.”Mr. Bayrou declared during the session, specifying that he will ask this question in his general policy speech.
“I can imagine it without the addition of a fee”he then added to the press. “I will advise future members of my government to maintain their mandate and I will also advise others [d’avoir] a small antenna on the ground »reiterated Mr. Bayrou in front of the elected representatives of Pau.
He had already remained mayor during his tenure as justice in 2017
The head of government justified his position “from the rupture between the base of French society (…) and those in power”there is “glass wall” who feeds “a profound distrust in the political world, in all the parties put together”. “We must root political responsibilities, in the villages, in the neighborhoods, in the cities”he insisted, citing the examples of Pierre Mauroy in Lille, Gaston Defferre in Marseille, Jacques Chaban-Delmas and Alain Juppé in Bordeaux, or even Jacques Chirac in Paris and Corrèze.
François Bayrou, who will give a general delegation to his first deputy, had already retained his mayoral mandate when he was briefly justice minister in 2017. The law does not prohibit a member of the government from remaining mayor, only parliamentarians. However, many of his predecessors in Matignon have abandoned the position of first councilor, such as recently Jean Castex in 2020 or Édouard Philippe in 2017.
Pau’s opposition criticized Mr Bayrou’s choice, believing it was not “irreplaceable” in Paù. “Our city needs a mayor who is present every day and involved in problems”launched the socialist Jérôme Marbot, while the ecologist Jean-François Blanco criticized him for his participation in the city council, believing that his place “it was in Paris or Mayotte” – the French overseas department has suffered the devastating passage of a cyclone – and this is a local mandate “should not be a basis for fallback”.
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