“I have never renounced any of my duties,” says François Bayrou

After the presidential elections of 2002, 2007 and 2012, will François Bayrou be a candidate for the Élysée again, in 2027? “I have never renounced any of my duties” nor to “none of the responsibilities that are mine”, replies the president of MoDem, after resoundingly refusing to return to the government. It sums “the challenge of 2027” with a formula that resembles a campaign slogan. This issue, “it is precisely that we manage to reconcile France which fights at the bottom with France which decides at the top”.

“Elected official from the most distant province of France”the mayor of Pau claims to know “what is experienced by all those who observe, coming from above, directives which are often in contradiction with what is happening on the ground”. “I will not let a certain number of abuses take place which are based on ignorance by those responsible at the top of what the French are experiencing at the grassroots”he adds. “Let’s correct them with the majority, with the future government, but let’s correct them and take them into account, let’s not play deaf”he says.

“Open your eyes to what we are going through. Where will this thing end?” he asks. He is referring here to “French policy as it has been conducted for many years and undoubtedly decades”, and therefore under the current president. However, he will not regret “Never” for having supported him in the 2017 presidential election, rather than being a candidate himself. “Imagine what we would have encountered if Emmanuel Macron had not been elected, and if he had not created this new landscape [politique] that we live”which is no longer limited to the right-left divide.