Bayrou wants to unmask the privileges of politicians: "Not everyone can be Cicero. Not everyone can be Milei."

Finally, France is waking up! What a joy for the liberal in me. "Nothing is more shameful than a magistrate who enriches his household when he should be enriching the Republic." Cicero, you might say? No! François Bayrou ! Indeed, our Prime Minister, in a video posted on social media, pledged to unmask the privileges that political leaders allegedly enjoy. He asserts that "we must shed light on all this."

It's always refreshing for a liberal to hear these words from a well-heeled, careerist centrist who has spent his life being paid by the French. So it's never too late.

This recommendation didn't really come from him. So allow me not to hold my breath over these supposed savings. It was the French themselves who suggested this idea to our Prime Minister. They were, he says, "very numerous." In his own words, it was even "the most frequently expressed request by citizens." François Bayrou therefore concluded that there was a persistent suspicion: that politicians are lining their own pockets.

What a revelation! A people crushed by a titanic tax system, taxed and imposed from birth until death, unable to work, open a business or create a company without being immediately harassed by the DGFIP, URSSAF, MSA, AGIRC-ARRCO, VAT, CFE, TICPE… A people who do not understand where their taxes go, where their money disappears, before learning that MPs buy drugs with it, subsidize cruises to Gaza and fill their bellies with it! What a Cicero!

Today we are witnessing a new manifestation of French grandeur. François Bayrou is mobilizing René Dosière, an 84-year-old former Socialist MP, flanked by a few parliamentarians, for this heavy task. This is our awakening. Forget Colbert. Forget Turgot. Forget Briand. No more Blum, no more Mendès France. In France, we no longer reform. We no longer risk. We no longer jump. We sink... while shouting the opposite.

Make way for René. Argentina, you see, has its Javier Milei: the rabid economist, chainsaw in hand, determined to transform his country and straighten out its finances. El Salvador has its Bukele, elected with 84% of the vote, who restored his nation's security. The United States has its ogre Trump, embarking on his crusade against illegal immigration.

And us? To tackle our abysmal debt, our uncontrollable spending, our nonexistent growth, our biblical taxes, we have... François Bayrou and René Dosière. That's how France is doing.

This reminds me of Paul Morand's diary: "I read," he says, "the memories of Captain Coignet, where four Frenchmen always triumph over ten thousand Cossacks. Times have changed."

Not everyone can be Cicero. Not everyone can be Milei. And if France dies tomorrow, it will be neither by the strength of its enemies nor by the violence of its challenges. It will be by pettiness.