French centrist politician and longtime mayor who became Macron's ally, briefly served as Minister of Justice before a corruption scandal, then was appointed to the largely ceremonial High Commission for Planning.
"François Bayrou is a longtime French politician, who has only encountered middling success at best. Longtime mayor of a small regional city in the Pyrenees, he is also the president of the centrist formation, which accounted for very little in the broad political landscape of France until Macron cam"