A very clear foot change. So far anxious to leave a great freedom of tone to his ministers, sometimes in the frank disagreements among them, François Bayrou whistled the end of the recess this Tuesday on the issue of using the veil in sports competitions. Five of his ministers were summoned to remember the government line.
“We have a principle attached to the prime minister: it is that of the solidarity of the government. We play together, we do not criticize among us,” explains a relative of the tenant from Matignon to BFMTV.com.
“We correct the shot”
Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin and his colleague from Interior Bruno Retailleau had not hesitated to publicly print the Minister of Sports Marie Barsacq and Elisabeth with the question of the ostentatious religious signs in sports competitions.
Upon listening for the deputies, the Minister of Sports warned March 13 against the “confusion” and the “amalgams” between using the radicalization of the veil and the Islamist in the sport.
These words had deeply disliked Bruno Retaille, who fiercely supports the LR bill in the Senate to ban the veil in sports competitions, adopted on February 18 at the Luxembourg Palace. He had explained a few days after speaking by the Minister of Sports in “Radical Disagree” with her.
Then Gérald Darmanin entered the dance, explaining “that the use of veil in competitions is obvious.”
“That after three months of a new government, there may be a gap or several on a sensitive issue and that we correct the shot, it seems common sense,” judges the attached modem Nicolas Turquois.
Until now a wind of freedom
At the end of the meeting in Matignon, the message was transmitted that the government line corresponded was that of the Senate, which is very close to what the law already allows, remembered by the State Council in June 2023 after His convulsion of the Hijabeuse football team.
“The prime minister hopes that the ministers talk in a respectful way,” insisted the government spokeswoman Sophie Primas, Wednesday.
However, observation was not obvious. Until now, the rule was clear: the ministers were free to say they were talking in their own name. The method had the merit of demonstrating that this government, which has the ministers of law, the macronist electrical officials and a close to the left, was plural.
Seven more work per year, the taxes of the richest retirees, the end of the Land Law in Mayotte … Several ministers launched ideas in the air in January and February, before the Government spokesman specifies that “the official position” of the Executive were not at this stage.
“We are not going to tell Borne or Darmanin to complete it”
Where some would see Hippo, the government spokesman liked to repeat at that time that it was “polyphony.”
“It is logical that this government is a government of the assembly between experienced persons, with convictions. We will not give up who we are and keep talking about polyphony,” he persisted and signed on Wednesday.
“The subtext is clear. Where Barnier prescribes the ministers that nobody knew, without political weight, we will not say in Borne or Darmanin to complete it,” decipher a deputy from the Renaissance.
“There, Bayrou reappears, but in their own way, that is, everyone understood what I wanted. This is not really what I call being beaten in my fingers,” however, matifies.
A rethinking that happy to all
Difficult to contradict him: at the end of Matignon’s meeting, all his ministers seemed to have heard what was in his direction as Gérald Darmanin, who threatened to resign if the prime minister was distances the prohibition of the veil in sport. His entourage welcomed steeply that François Bayrou is in his line.
Elisabeth Borne and Marie Barsacq recalled that a “framework already existed to protect secularism.”
“The will of François Bayrou is to let everyone express themselves to occupy the media scene. He continues to do what he has been doing since his arrival in Matignon,” says Senator Modem Jean-Marie Vanlerenberghe.
“The idea is that we can talk to the left and to the right at the same time. We need that so that the common base does not crack in the assembly. If we hear that Retilleau can end up throwing farts,” summarizes a ministerial advisor.
“At one point, he also remembers who has authority within his government after two, three days not easy,” he also deciphers a former Michel Barnier advisor while publishing his skepticism.
“I doubt that all that does not change anything. When you have a minister who threatens to give up and give up, he especially shows that you are weak in a moment.”
“There are no gifts” by Retilleau
This meeting in Matignon has arrived the day after the camoufla of Algeria inflicted for Algeria, who refused to assume the sixties nationals despite the threats of François Bayrou to “denounce” the 1968 agreement that gave A special state for Algeriansin terms of traffic, stay and employment.
The prime minister also died on the left for having closed the door on any return to retirement at age 62, far from his commitment not to have taboo or totem on the subject. As for the conclave with the unions, which is supposed to symbolize the method of the prime minister, it seems to resort to the fiasco.
“The controversies will be linked because it begins to dissatisfied. And as the presidential election approaches, I do not see why Darmanin or Retaille would make him the gift of not offending him,” says a ministerial collaborator.
Response of former Vice President of the Modem Jean-Marie Vanlerenberghe. “50 years have passed that he has been in politics and 50 who knows controversies. I really don’t think this disturbs it.”
During a dinner this Tuesday night around the members of his party, François Bayrou claimed to seem “very very relaxed.”
Source: BFM TV
