"We're going to have to put up with him until 2027 even though everyone hates him": François Bayrou's popularity rating among his own people is at an all-time low

It's not just in the polls that the Prime Minister is reaching record unpopularity. This is also the case within the governing coalition, which is supposed to support him.

After four months and almost 20 days of François Bayrou at Matignon, his popularity rating is at an all-time low in the polls, and the feedback from the troops is very harsh. Members of parliament from the government coalition, as well as ministers, are criticizing the attitude of their Prime Minister, whom they are supposed to support. Off-camera, many are spilling their guts. "Nobody likes him, he maneuvers very well, but he's technically bad," chides an advisor to a Macronist heavyweight in the Assembly. "When you listen to him, it's like Trump, as approximate as possible, it's just a bit of a snitch!"

Supporters who do not forgive him for a series of slip-ups . For them, the list is long, starting with his return trip to his town of Pau in a Falcon in the middle of the crisis in Mayotte, his hesitations - even his lack of preparation, according to a member of the government - during the first question on the Bétharram affair, his position on the return to 62 years before the end of the conclave which caused the exit of the CGT... "His problem is that he does not listen to advice , says a leading minister, he has a 'I don't need anyone to think' side, but it plays tricks on him."

Others criticize his ambitions, such as wanting to hold on at all costs. "He will only be judged on the length of his tenure at Matignon," thinks a minister's close friend, "so he spends his time stalling but doesn't get anyone on board." "He has only one goal: to last, to exist, to build his character," ventures a Macronist MP. "We're going to have to put up with him until 2027 while everyone hates him," adds another, " but his central position in the current equation means that he's the only one who can hold this thing together."

François Bayrou even goes so far as to annoy the President of the Republic. Again this weekend, after his proposal for a referendum on the deficit in the Journal du Dimanche . Emmanuel Macron's entourage responded, in essence, that it was difficult to make a decision without knowing his proposals for finding 40 billion in savings. Meaning: OK for the PR stunt, but the Prime Minister's response continues to be delayed.

Few people are publicly defending him. His Minister for Gender Equality, Aurore Bergé, nevertheless spoke out on Sunday, May 4, on RTL: "It's not easy to be Prime Minister at a time of institutional and political crisis, without a majority in the Assembly." Those around him do not understand "this form of contempt for him, as if François Bayrou was there by chance, but he is a fine example of meritocracy, he has occupied all the positions of the Fifth Republic." A contempt which, according to this same source at franceinfo, would protect him since in the end, "people don't see it coming, but it is indeed he who is Prime Minister."