François Bayrou is not a man to complain. That the ideas launched by his party, the MoDem, are the object of sarcasm on the part of the government does not matter to him. The mayor of Pau, who is 71 years old, including more than forty in politics, knows that to be heard you have to impose yourself. Sooner or later, his time will come, he hinted, Wednesday, January 25, presenting his wishes to the press. “The political world – I don’t know whether to regret it or rejoice in it – is a world of balance of power. If you need to go begging to be listened to, then you can look at the door right now, because you will be taking it in no time.he analyzed. We will be listened to if we are strong, calm, determined and sure of our analyses. »
At a time when the pension reform is about to be debated in committee at the National Assembly, on January 30, before, perhaps, igniting the street the next day for a strike promised by a united front of unions , the septuagenarian does not hide his presidential ambitions. Kingmaker in 2017, by allowing Emmanuel Macron to become President of the Republic, he in turn imagines climbing to the highest step of power by 2027. “I have always said that the presidential election was the major election in the country, there is no committed citizen who should not be concerned about it. I am no exception to this rule”, he confided on Wednesday, echoing the remarks he had made a few days earlier on BFM-TV. the presidential, “Is it an obsession for me every morning? No. Is that, having said that, a discarded engagement? No “he admitted.
The one that Macronie nicknamed “François Biden”, in reference to the American president, Joe Biden, elected at the head of the first world power at some 78 years old, would have even, rare privilege, displayed his aims to the head of the state. Emmanuel Macron would not have taken umbrage, welcoming a frankness that other faithful do not have, we report to the Elysée. After a thirty-year-old president, the Béarnais sees the qualities of an experienced old sage. And the pension reform, a symbolic object, gives the opportunity to the one who was Minister of Education during the second cohabitation of François Mitterrand to assert a “MoDem line”.
Refusal to “obstruct the government”
After having defended the idea of taxing the “super dividends” in the fall, the centrists suggest to weigh on the capital, and not only on the work, the efforts related to the reform of the pensions by increasing the employers’ contributions. The idea is sharply rejected by the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne. François Bayrou and the deputies of the MoDem, who intend to file an amendment to this effect, cannot ignore that in the name of the attractiveness of the country the Head of State rejects any tax increase, whatever it may be. ” The debate will open [au Parlement], and it’s going to be difficult. We must behave responsibly so as not to create a situation in which the government would be prevented from carrying its text”admits Mr. Bayrou.
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