While rumors of a reshuffle are becoming more and more insistent, François Bayrou in turn pushed Élisabeth Borne out on Sunday. “I think a change is necessary” in government architecture, considered this close friend of Emmanuel Macron, also affirming that Julien Denormandie, whose name is circulating for Matignon, is “an estimable young man”.
“We have reached the end of a sequence with difficult texts: there is inevitably a new period opening”, “I think it is legitimate that there is renewal”, argued on BFMTV the president of MoDem.
Trust has “disintegrated between the French and the State”
Regarding a possible change of Prime Minister, the president of MoDem explained that “the so-called face of the political line”. “The challenge today is to rebuild a trust which has unfortunately disintegrated between the French and the State, between the French themselves and even, if I dare say, between the French and France “, he added.
He called for “consistency” with “the project that led Emmanuel Macron when he was elected President of the Republic”, “renewal” and “refoundation”. “The republican idea is weakened, the idea of the State is weakened: we need to believe in it again,” said the three-time presidential candidate.
Denormandie rather than Lecornu
If the fate of Élisabeth Borne in Matignon is not sealed, the name of the former Minister of Agriculture, Julien Denormandie, a historic walker who accompanied Emmanuel Macron’s presidential adventure from its earliest days, is circulating insistently to take over from him. “He is someone very estimable and in line with this idea,” said the centrist leader.
“I am attached to this unprecedented and totally unforeseen renewal which, in 2017, brought down the two clans which had held power for fifty years through an absolute monopoly,” said François Bayrou, pleading for “overcoming”. On the other hand, regarding another contender for Matignon, Sébastien Lecornu, a former LR currently Minister of the Armed Forces, he seemed more reserved.
A tighter government
François Bayrou called for “the deep adherence of the future head of government to this idea that no, we are not at the end of the cycle” and “no, we are not in the continuation of the policy as it is. has been made for decades and basically, in which it would be enough to be well placed.
The mayor of Pau once again called for a tighter government: “Too often, members of the government consider that their destiny is more important than the general destiny, and their teams spend their time inventing new things,” he said. deplored, considering in particular that we were making “too many laws”.