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LR: Larcher’s warning to Ciotti
Eric Ciotti had promised during his campaign for the presidency of LR to quickly modify the statutes and to abolish the system of primaries. While a congress is envisaged before the summer, the President of the Senate Gérard Larcher warned the new number 1 of the Republicans: “When we are at 5%, it is not the priority to look into our method of designation of the candidate for the Elysée!” Wednesday morning May 10, it was David Lisnard who remarked on Europe 1: “From the moment there is no natural candidate, we have seen it in the latest polls, from the moment when he there is no evidence, you need a principle of selection.”
Bruno Le Maire, whatever he thinks…
We do not know what Emmanuel Macron’s assessment of these hundred days will be, but one thing is certain: they have not sounded the stumbling end of “whatever the cost”, called for by the Minister of Economy Bruno Le Maire for several months now. “He is in stress, Bruno, laughs one of his colleagues. Each time the president opens the door of his 5008, it is to slam a new billion.” But, according to this same member of the government, it is not to displease the boss strategist of Bercy: “It is a tension which is also tactical, the day when he wants to leave, he will be able to play on this rope to legitimize his departure and build his costume as a serious candidate.”
49.3: Aurore Bergé would like a doctrine
The majority paid dearly for the use of Article 49.3 to conclude the pension reform. In any case, this is what the boss of the Renaissance group in the National Assembly seems to think, who likes to dream that, for the future, “a doctrine” will be laid down. According to Aurore Bergé, simply stating that a subject “is too important to put aside” would have the merit of clarifying the government’s positions and thus justifying the use of the dreaded article. For the future immigration text, for example? If the use of 49.3 was mentioned by the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin during a meeting with the Prime Minister in mid-April, the latter seemed, two weeks ago, to completely exclude this option. But in Macronie, and at the Elysée in particular, yesterday’s decision is not tomorrow’s.
Macron does not like “the middle classes” – well, the expression
His ministers do not hesitate to mention “the middle classes” in their speeches. Not Emmanuel Macron. The president refuses to use the expression. “He does not like it, because the term is too indefinable, explains one of his advisers. He targets those who are too rich to benefit from aid but too poor to have the impression of making ends meet. ” In other words, specifies the same, those who earn between the minimum wage and 2000 to 2500 euros per month.
This (very) right arm of Jordan Bardella who worries
Pierre-Romain Thionnet is not only the president of the youth branch of the RN. He is also the main adviser to Jordan Bardella, president of the Lepenist formation. An activist with a strong identity fiber, passed by the student union La Cocarde. After being unfavorably noticed for his front cover of the magazine The Wrong with his Reconquest and LR counterparts, it is now the meetings organized by the RNJ that annoy those around Marine Le Pen. Too masculine, and with too radical a fragrance. “I did not like the atmosphere,” slips one of his closest lieutenants, who opened up to the head of the RN group in the Assembly. Among the participants, there is sometimes a sympathizer of the GUD or a former spokesperson for Génération identitaire.