“There is no reason to have hard feelings,” assures the president of MoDem

For the president of MoDem, “a difference in approach” with Gabriel Attal prevented him from being appointed to the Ministry of National Education.

“There’s no reason to hold grudges“, assures François Bayrou, mayor of Pau and president of MoDem, guest Friday February 9 of France Bleu Béarn Bigorre, after having finally been dismissed for “political differences” of Gabriel Attal’s new team.

“I don’t want to bring any controversy or gloss, we explained it, the Prime Minister said last night very honestly and very sportingly, friendly, what it was, explains François Bayrou, approached at the Ministry of National Education. “We have a difference of approach to education policy and this difference of approach prevented me from being able to occupy this position which I had already occupied quite a long time ago and on which, it is true, I had ideas“.

If Gabriel Attal had offered him this ministry, “I think I would have gone thereaffirms the president of MoDem, but I understand very well that this difference in approach that we have and that now events will allow us to judge, prevented me from occupying this position and that is very good as it is.“.

“Divergences” welcome in a majority

The president of MoDem advocates his “freedom“to think in the presidential majority. According to him, “it is very good that in a political group like a majority, we can have approaches that are not the same, nuances, sometimes even a little more, divergences, and that we nevertheless retain a feeling of responsibility“.

He assures that he “there’s no reason to hold grudges. Since the first day of the alliance that we made with the President of the Republic to change the French political landscape, it must change again and assert itself again to build a base for the country’s politics, which is a central base which allows for dialogue with different sensibilities and which authorizes pluralism in France. Since that first day, my attitude has been freedom. Freedom and responsibility. Not only freedom, but sharing this freedom with the French“, continues François Bayrou.