“I do not believe that such a crisis can be overcome without a huge national effort. However, the very idea of a national effort often seems to have faded,” says François Bayrou.
The president of the MoDem François Bayrou considers, in an interview with Point published on Wednesday August 24, that France “going towards the most serious crisis“that she has known”since the war“, and which cannot be overcome “without a huge national effort“.
This speech comes on the day of the Council of Ministers back to school, during which Emmanuel Macron once again insisted on the seriousness of the issues faced with the “series of severe seizureson a global level, from the conflict in Ukraine to climate change.
“National effort wiped out”
“My deep feeling is that we are heading towards the most serious crisis that France has known since the war.», «maybe even worse than the war in Algeria(1954-1962), believes François Bayrou at Point. “I do not believe that such a crisis can be overcome without a huge national effort. Yet the very idea of a national effort often seems to have been erased“Judges the centrist official, also High Commissioner for Planning.
“I sometimes have the impression that the political world itself does not realize what is coming, given the howls and insults that pollute the debates in the National Assembly“Judges the boss of the Modem, allied to the presidential party within a relative majority in the Assembly. Internationally, François Bayrou cites the conflict in Ukraine, the risk of a food crisis, particularly in Africa, racial tensions in the United States, the situation in China and the elections in Italy, where the leader of the far-right party Fratelli d’Italia Giorgia Meloni is in the lead in the polls for the legislative elections on 25th September.
“Need for a mutation”
He also discusses the issues related to the energy transition, the “very high inflation» and the question of «imbalance in our finances“, whose “no one in public opinion seems to be really aware“. Emmanuel Macron, assures François Bayrou, “will not evade any of the crucial questions of our future“. “It is more in the question of the medium and long term than in the management of the immediate“.
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François Bayrou also reaffirms the rolepolitical, more independent and initiativeWhat he thinks the Prime Minister must have in this new political configuration, as he did the day after the legislative elections, which was seen as a criticism of the profile of Elisabeth Borne. “I believe that Élisabeth Borne, intelligent and determined, has understood this and that she is experiencing the need for this change“, he said.
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