“I think that François Bayrou has perhaps taken note of a right-wing shift in this government,” reacts a MoDem deputy

Invited on franceinfo on Wednesday, the MoDem deputy for Loiret, Richard Ramos, welcomes the decision of François Bayrou to have declined a position in the government.

“I think that François Bayrou has perhaps taken note of a right-wing shift in this government,” declared Richard Ramos, MoDem (Democratic Movement) deputy for Loiret, on franceinfo Wednesday February 7. François Bayrou, expected in recent days to re-enter the government after his departure in 2017, affirmed at the start of the evening that he had declined the post of Minister of the Armed Forces, but also that of Minister of Education, due to “deeply in agreement on the policy to follow”.

“It can’t just be one text”, for example the recent immigration law, which caused this difference of point of view between Emmanuel Macron and François Bayrou, analyzes Richard Ramos. “François Bayrou has a global idea of ​​what is needed for this country and I think he considered that this government had no place in the idea he had of this governance “. A position shared by Richard Ramos, who says “rural elected official from the countryside”and who judges a government of Gabriel Attal “too right” And “Parisian”.

A “Parisian” government

Moreover, apart from the Ministry of Education, where François Bayrou concluded “after numerous discussions (…) a difference of approach on the method to follow” which seemed to him “crippling”the founder and president of MoDem also declared that he had not found an agreement with the government on the subject of “the gulf that has widened between the province and Paris”, “on all the crises of regional planning”.

Richard Ramos understands in the text that François Bayrou convinced neither Emmanuel Macron nor Gabriel Attal that this problem needed to be managed. “We are on a Parisian government”repeats the centrist deputy. “And we have a certain idea of ​​France which is a profound idea of ​​the French people which is managed neither on the left nor on the right, but by the people and in the provinces.”

The government of Gabriel Attal, with “no important minister south of the Loire”says the Loiret MP, made us forget that of Jean Castex, mayor of Prades (Pyrénées-Orientales) who became Prime Minister in July 2020. “The France of the territories (…), it is missing”notes Richard Ramos. “These people need viscerality, not just intellectuals who went to the ENA (National School of Administration) or who studied at the finest schools in Paris.”