The Prime Minister finally gave his roadmap this week with his general policy declaration presented Tuesday January 14 in the hemicycle. After a month at Matignon, his style divides. This is not a surprise, but there was no great enthusiasm after his speech and his style was not unanimous.
François Bayrou knows, the task is arduous, he said it himself this Tuesday in front of the deputies: “ By what kind of optimism do the 16 % of French people who think that the government will not be censored before the end of the year can they really be animated? ? When everything is going well, we fall asleep on our laurels, when everything is going badly, we are forced to be courageous. » So he tried to reassure, but the joke says a lot.
And during his grand oral presentation in front of the deputies, he had difficulty covering the invectives coming most of the time from the ranks of La France Insoumise. We had rarely heard so much hubbub. In any case, the Prime Minister came away disgusted and would have confided to his Minister of Agriculture Annie Genevard that the hemicycle was “ unlivable “.
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Even if the criticisms are less harsh in substance, it is the form that has left its mark. This Tuesday, he multiplied the metaphors and also got tangled in his cards at the start of the speech. Which caused a good reaction on social networks.
A style that he cultivates even if he knows he is very criticized
François Bayrou, the lecturer in classics and lover of fine literature, was very stingy this Tuesday in his lyrical flights. As an MP from the Prime Minister’s party told me, “ all these sentences, it’s because he has a side “common sense near you” claimed, with slightly outdated expressions and simple vocabulary, it’s the Bayrou style “. “ Leeks, it’s a metaphor that was meant to be amusing, he didn’t use too complex words, to remain understandable in a general policy declaration, enlightens the same deputy. In major MoDem meetings, it can become much more literary, more complex. There, he wanted to make the whole thing more readable. »
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For a Republican deputy, “ the parliamentarians laugh, but it slips on him. At least he didn’t excite anyone, but he didn’t anger anyone either. “. And for a leading minister, “ the Bayrou style is special. We’re bored, but I think he has courage “.
The fact remains that even with his somewhat slow and often mocked rate of speech, all this is the trademark of the new Prime Minister who in more than 40 years of political life has never changed his style.