The MoDem leader admitted on LCI that his failure in the municipal elections had been “difficult” and “painful” because Pau is “a city that (he) gave”.
He closes the door. Former Prime Minister and three-time presidential candidate François Bayrou stated on LCI on Tuesday evening that he “did not have the presidential election in mind“. That being said, the MoDem leader suggested that the least well-placed candidates from the central block in the presidential election could “withdraw” from the beginning of 2027. “Let each person present themselves, present their ideas. And in February, end of January-February (…) everyone should be ready to withdraw for the one considered the best placed,” said François Bayrou who wants to remain in the center of the game.
However, for now, “among the qualities required for the one who will embody these values, there is selflessness,” and “for now, (he) doesn’t see many“. Another wish of the centrist: that the chosen one is able to “unite the country in the necessary march towards national unity.”
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A defeat by 344 votes
Defeated in the municipal elections in his city of Pau after leaving Matignon in September following a vote of no confidence, he acknowledged that his defeat, by 344 votes against the socialist Jérôme Marbot, had been “difficult” and “painful,” “because it is a city (he) loves“. But he added that he had not “experienced depression” and that he was ready to pick himself up. “If you fall and stay on the ground, at that moment, it is a failure. And if you get up, it is a new beginning,” he said, attributing this quote to Socrates.
