Guest of Darius Rochebin Monday evening on the LCI set, the Prime Minister stole the rescue of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marine Le Pen.
Neither the rebellious France nor the national rally. This seems to be the line of conduct fixed for weeks in the presidential camp. And yet, invited on the set of Darius Rochebin, Monday January 27, François Bayrou nevertheless defended two of the great figures of these different parties. “I don’t like that we are talking [de Jean-Luc Mélenchon et de Marine Le Pen] With contempt, rejection and violence, “said François Bayrou, when he was precisely questioned about his deep respect for these figures and their parties so much criticized by others.
“Why? Because they are French people,” said the Prime Minister, recalling that “Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, in their own presidential election, obtained between 16 and 17 million votes”. And François Bayrou to analyze in stride: “If you do not realize that the way we talk about them feeds the voters who join them, if at all times you make each of them the public enemy number one, […] You bring them on a silver set of millions of votes. “In addition,” we must pacify the country, “insisted the Prime Minister when France has known for months a particularly severe political crisis.
Marine Le Pen declared ineligible next March, an error?
Asked about the verdict expected on March 31, 2025 in the so -called parliamentary assistant case of the National Front in the European Parliament – in which the prosecution requested five years in prison last November, including two farms, five years of ineligibility and 300,000 Euros fine against Marine Le Pen – François Bayrou quickly swept away that “the responsibility of the government cannot relate to justice”. Before however developing: “But I think it is very disturbing that judgments are pronounced without being able to appeal. And secondly, I consider that this accusation […] is unfair. “Let us recall that François Bayrou himself was the subject of similar accusations with five former MEMB MEPEMs, before being, for his part, finally released in February 2024.