The president of MoDem, François Bayrou, was questioned this Sunday on Radio J about a possible presidential candidacy in 2027. Without directly answering the question, he said that “he has always been ready, I have already been a candidate three times.” Shortly after this statement, he returned to his statements and what had been deduced from them.
“The claim that he would be interested in the 2027 election is completely off the mark and ridiculous,” he said. wrote on Twittertruncating any rumor of candidacy on his part.
We “do not know what can happen”
During the interview, François Bayrou never clearly answered “yes” to questions about his participation in the upcoming presidential elections.
The president of the MoDem declared that he will exercise “to the best of his ability” his “citizenship in all the roles and in all the commitments that make France able to choose a destiny that resembles the one I believe in.”
Then he added that “we don’t know what can happen” until 2027. Faced with “the incredible difficulty of the times, if you think that any zozo can say five years in advance what is going to happen”, this person is a “charlatan”, he adds .
Source: BFM TV
