What would politics be without its stunts, its low blows, its twisted blows, its dirty tricks…? Because, as Edouard Philippe would say, “we have to do things seriously without taking ourselves seriously”, the political service of L’Express offers to immerse you in the corridors of power thanks to a weekly meeting, every Thursday, on our website.
Immigration bill: Véran has an idea
No doubt feeling the wind of the cannonball, Olivier Véran, like others, strives to minimize the extent of the immigration bill carried by Gérald Darmanin. The text, which is already controversial, would only be “a toolbox available to prefects”, wants to believe the government spokesman, from the left. Also in charge of Democratic Renewal, he also received the authors of a forum pleading for the organization of a citizens’ convention on immigration and considered their idea formidable. “The convention is a tool that we should use more,” defends Véran, who would also find it relevant to solicit citizens on the question of algorithms. With this format, no risk of 49-3 – which he considers, personally, that it should not be used on this text.
Beaune and the dog years
A certain weariness seems to have seized the members of the government lately. Clément Beaune sighs: “Three pieces of legislation for barely a year, of course, but everything is heavier, slower, it’s tweezers”, a reference to the precise counting and recounting carried out in recent weeks by the executive as part of the pension reform. The Minister of Transport, yet young and dashing, adds, bitterly: “It’s like the dog years, we age faster in this majority.”
Macron wants to guide Charles III
We change everything! Monday March 13, Emmanuel Macron decided to be himself the guide of King Charles III for his visit to Notre-Dame Cathedral, during his trip to France from March 26 to 29. The president, accompanied by his wife, will therefore be alongside the king and the queen consort. There remains a crucial question: while General Jean-Louis Georgelin, in charge of the reconstruction project, does not want to hear of an exception, will Charles III escape the shower before and after the site visit, and the special combination during? But what about Camilla’s brushing?
The lessons of politeness of Edouard Philippe
He will take malicious pleasure in doing the exact opposite of the treatment reserved for him in September 2022 during the launch of Renaissance, at the Carrousel du Louvre. Edouard Philippe, that day, had been deprived of speech, just like François Bayrou. On March 25, for the Congress of his Horizons movement at the Parc Floral in Paris, he therefore decided that Stéphane Séjourné, secretary general of Renaissance, like François Bayrou, president of the Modem, would make a speech.
Bertrand-Pradié: one too many
“Xavier Bertrand? Aurélien Pradié killed him!” “And to say that Bertrand reproached Eric Ciotti for having dismissed Pradié from his post as number 2 of LR… He would have done better to thank him!” Adds another Republican official.