François Bayrou

**François René Jean Lucien Bayrou** (; born 25 May 1951) is a French politician. He was the Prime Minister of France from December 2024 until September 2025. He was a candidate for president in the 2002, 2007 and 2012 presidential elections.

From 1993 to 1997, Bayrou was Minister of National Education. He was also a member of the National Assembly from 1986 to 2012 and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1999 to 2002. He has been mayor of Pau since 2014.

On 13 December 2024, Bayrou was appointed as Prime Minister by President Emmanuel Macron.

On 8 September 2025, Bayrou announced his resignation as prime minister after a no confidence vote in the National Assembly of France won the support of 364 lawmakers out of 577 total seats.

Polls had shown Bayrou had become the most unpopular prime minister under the Fifth Republic.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: François Bayrou
- **image**: François Bayrou - 2025 (cropped) 2.jpg
- **caption**: Bayrou in 2025
- **office**: Prime Minister of France
- **president**: Emmanuel Macron
- **predecessor**: Michel Barnier
- **successor**: Sébastien Lecornu
- **term start**: 13 December 2024
- **term end**: 9 September 2025
- **office1**: Ministry of Justice (France), Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice
- **predecessor1**: Jean-Jacques Urvoas
- **primeminister1**: Édouard Philippe
- **successor1**: Nicole Belloubet
- **term start1**: 17 May 2017
- **term end1**: 19 June 2017
- **office2**: Ministry of National Education (France), Minister of National Education
- **primeminister2**: Édouard Balladur
Alain Juppé
- **term start2**: 29 March 1993
- **term end2**: 4 June 1997
- **predecessor2**: Jack Lang (French politician), Jack Lang
- **successor2**: Claude Allègre
- **office3**: Mayor (France), Mayor of Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Pau
- **predecessor3**: Martine Lignières-Cassou
- **term start3**: 4 April 2014
- **office4**: President of the Democratic Movement (France), Democratic Movement
- **predecessor4**: _Position established_
- **term start4**: 2 December 2007
- **office5**: President of the Union for French Democracy
- **term start5**: 25 February 1998
- **term end5**: 30 November 2007
- **predecessor5**: François Léotard
- **successor5**: _Position abolished_
- **office6**: President of the European Democratic Party
- **term start6**: 13 July 2004
- **predecessor6**: _Position established_
- **office7**: Member of the National Assembly (France), National Assembly
for Pyrénées-Atlantiques's 2nd constituency
- **term start7**: 19 June 2002
- **term end7**: 19 June 2012
- **predecessor7**: Pierre Menjucq
- **successor7**: Nathalie Chabanne
- **term start8**: 12 June 1997
- **term end8**: 21 December 1999
- **predecessor8**: Pierre Laguilhon
- **successor8**: Pierre Menjucq
- **term start9**: 2 April 1986
- **term end9**: 1 May 1993
- **predecessor9**: _Majority vote_
- **successor9**: Pierre Laguilhon
- **office10**: Member of the European Parliament
- **term start10**: 20 July 1999
- **term end10**: 20 June 2002
- **constituency10**: France (European Parliament constituency), France
- **office11**: List of presidents of departmental councils (France), President of the Departmental Council of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, General Council
of Pyrénées-Atlantiques
- **term start11**: 2 April 1992
- **term end11**: 23 March 2001
- **predecessor11**: Henri Grenet
- **successor11**: Jean-Jacques Lasserre
- **office12**: Member of the Departmental Council of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, General Council
of Pyrénées-Atlantiques
- **term start12**: 26 March 1982
- **term end12**: 21 March 2008
- **constituency12**: Canton of Pau-Sud
- **predecessor12**: Yves Urieta
- **successor12**: André Arribes
- **birth name**: François René Jean Lucien Bayrou
- **birth place**: Bordères, French Fourth Republic, France
- **party**: Democratic Movement (France), MoDem (2007–present)
- **otherparty**: Democratic Centre (France), CD (until 1976)
Centre of Social Democrats, CDS (1976–1995)
Democratic Force (France), FD (1995–1998)
Union for French Democracy, UDF (1978–2007)
- **alma mater**: University Bordeaux Montaigne
- **signature**: François Bayrou signature.svg
- **children**: 6