Bayrou, 73, will become the fourth head of the executive branch this year, replacing conservative Michel Barnier, nine days after the censure motion. He is well aware of the reality of Euskal Herria, since he was president of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department.
French President Emmanuel Macron appointed the centrist on Friday François Bayrou new Prime Minister of France to try to end the political crisis the country is experiencing.
Bayrou, 73, turns the fourth CEO so far this year and will replace conservative Michel Barnier, nine days after the censure vote that toppled his government, the country’s shortest-lived government since World War II.
Is mayor of Pauw since 2014, alongside the founder and leader of the centrist party Modem. After his appointment, he must leave the mayor’s office of Pau.
François Bayrou was born in Bordères, a town about 20 kilometers from Pau, and knows perfectly the reality of Euskal Herriasince he was president of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department (Iparralde and Biarno) between 1992 and 2001.
Bayrou’s native language is Occitan, and during his political career he has promoted measures in favor of France’s unofficial languages.
The experienced centrist politician started his political career in 1982 within the Christian Democratic Party. UDFand from there he took steps into the party and the following year won his first deputy seat, which he did not relinquish until 2012. In 2007 he founded the MoDem party.
He was appointed in 1993 minister of education in the government of the conservative Edouard Balladour, whom he supported in the 1995 presidential elections, relinquishing power after Jacques Chirac’s victory in those elections.
In the 1999 European elections he led his own list against the socialist François Hollande and the conservative Nicolas Sarkozy.
In 2002 he set out for the first time to conquer the Elysée and was successful presidential candidate two other times, in 2007 and 2012, and in 2007 he was close to the second round. In 2017, he left the race at the Elysée in favor of Macron, in whom he saw the embodiment of his desire to break the division between left and right.
Since then, he has stood alongside Macron and his party is actually part of the Ensemble coalition of the current president of France.
Source: EITB
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