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François Bayrou
François René Jean Bayrou is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from December 2024 to September 2025. He has presided over the European Democratic Party (EDP) since 2004 and the Democratic Movement (MoDem) since 2007. A centrist, he was a candidate in the 2002, 2007 and 2012 presidential elections.
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politics · Prime Minister of France from 2024 to 2025 · politician · pensioner · professor · mayor · also François Bayrou, Francois Bayrou, Francois Rene Jean Lucien Bayrou, Bayrou
Born 25 May 1951 · Q12963
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2026· 14 entries
“Perhaps it’s a sacrifice for me, but I feel there are times one has to rise to the seriousness of the situation and consider how to get out of it. It’s not a time for me to think of myself, but of my country.”
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“practices that would not be expected anywhere else”
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“RT by @ bayrou : ✍️Retrouvez l’édito de Pierre-Antoine Delhommais du magazine @LePoint : « Dette publique : @ bayrou avait raison, et c’est bien le problème » https://www. lepoint.fr/editos-du-point/det te-publique-bayrou-avait-raison-et-cest-bien-le-probleme-CQSM6XAOBFDT3F3ILIEAOXQ7SA/ ✍️Retrouvez l’édito de Pierre-Antoine Delhommais du magazine @LePoint : « Dette publique : @ bayrou avait raison, et c’est bien le problème » lepoint.fr/editos-du-point/d… Link Dette publique : Bayrou avait raiso”
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Brussels Signal: ‘The financial crisis is inevitable’, warns former French PM François Bayrou
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“RT by @ bayrou : Pour la première fois depuis son retour à la Maison-Blanche, Donald Trump a participé au dîner des correspondants. Pendant près d'une heure, il a alterné blagues, attaques contre ses adversaires et les médias, plaisanté sur un "quatrième mandat", avant de conclure en rendant hommage au travail des journalistes. --- https:// nitter.net/JeanEricBranaa/stat us/2080908467024298374#m”
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“La campagne présidentielle, c'est trois phases : les présentations, la décantation et le choix. Je pense que d'autres visages vont apparaître, n'allez pas plus vite que la musique ! # AlerteSurLaFranceQuiVient Video --- https:// nitter.net/bayrou/status/20801 76883224732041#m”
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“Lorsque vous voyez venir un danger, un risque, une menace terrible sur la société française, vous avez le choix quand vous êtes au gouvernement : pousser la poussière sous le tapis ou choisir de dire la vérité. Nous ne nous en sortirons qu'ensemble. # AlerteSurLaFranceQuiVient Video --- https:// nitter.net/bayrou/status/20801 75259680911728#m”
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“Je serai l'invité d'#EnTouteFranchise demain matin, dès 7h35, dans # BonjourLaMatinaleTF1 . --- https:// nitter.net/bayrou/status/20798 23763864961182#m”
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“📕 # AlerteSurLaFranceQuiVient disponible en librairie et sur commande : https://www. mouvementdemocrate.fr/actualit es/alerte-sur-la-france-qui-vient-en-librairie-image-8379-image --- https:// nitter.net/bayrou/status/20785 10108867174797#m”
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“Validé en tous points ! --- https:// nitter.net/bayrou/status/20777 42770035282226#m”
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“La voix de la France sera entendue à la mesure du redressement du pays. Il y a un lien qu'on ne peut pas oublier, qu'on ne peut pas écarter, entre la volonté nationale qui redresse le pays et la place de la France dans le monde. # AlerteSurLaFranceQuiVient Video --- https:// nitter.net/bayrou/status/20776 84841953345873#m”
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“À demain matin sur @RFI ! --- https:// nitter.net/bayrou/status/20773 97257331114240#m”
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“RT by @ bayrou : LE TOUR SUR CANAPÉ. « Le Point » suit le Tour de France avec des personnalités attachées à la Grande Boucle. Deuxième étape dans la roue de l’ancien Premier ministre, François @ bayrou . ➡️ https:// l.lepoint.fr/AgY --- https:// nitter.net/LePoint/status/2075 495367634751667#m”
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2024· 1 entry
Career landmark: Prime Minister of France (2024–2025).
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2022· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (2022).
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2020· 3 entries
Career landmark: conseiller municipal de Pau (2020).
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Career landmark: High Commissioner for Planning (2020).
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Career landmark: Mayor of Pau (2020–2026).
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2017· 2 entries
Campaign: 2017 presidential election.
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Career landmark: Minister of Justice (2017–2017).
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2014· 2 entries
Career landmark: conseiller municipal de Pau (2014–2020).
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Career landmark: Mayor of Pau (2014–2020).
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2009· 1 entry
Criticized statements by Pope Benedict XVI claiming that condoms promote AIDS on a journey to Cameroon
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2007· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (2007–2012).
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Bayrou said: "I am a democrat, I am a Clintonian, I am a man of the 'third way'"
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2005· 1 entry
“I am a democrat, I am a Clintonian, I am a man of the”
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2002· 3 entries
By National Front leader Jean Marie Le Pen
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Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (2002–2007).
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François Bayrou rejected proposals to merge the UDF with the Rally for the Republic (RPR), into a new entity that later became the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP)
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1999· 1 entry
Career landmark: Member of the European Parliament (1999–2002).
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1998· 1 entry
Transforming it into a unified party rather than a union of smaller parties
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1997· 2 entries
Awarded Commander of the French Order of Academic Palms (1997).
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Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1997–1999).
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Marcel Pollitzer Prize (1995).
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded Hugues-Capet Prize (1994).
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1993· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1993–1993).
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Career landmark: Minister of National Education, Higher Education and Research (1993–1997).
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1989· 1 entry
After poor results in both the municipal elections and the European Parliament elections, Bayrou and twelve other centre-right parliamentarians including Philippe Séguin, Michel Noir, Alain Carignon, Étienne Pinte, Miche
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1988· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1988–1993).
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1986· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1986–1988).
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1982· 1 entry
In the canton of Pau-Sud, then the French National Assembly four years later
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1976· 1 entry
And François Bayrou is considered Lecanue's "scribe"
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1974· 2 entries
Obtained the agrégation (academic qualification) in classical literature and then taught in Pau until 1979
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After his agrégation in classical literature, joining the Democratic Centre (CD) of Jean Lecanuet, candidate in the 1965 presidential election against General de Gaulle
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1972· 1 entry
Wrote a master's thesis on Charles Péguy's The Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc
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1968· 1 entry
From the public high school of Nay-Bourdettes
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1951· 1 entry
Born 1951-05-25.
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