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Marion Maréchal makes fun of Laurent Wauquiez
Marion Maréchal went through the interview given by Laurent Wauquiez to Le Point and the least we can say is that she contemplates with a touch of contempt the fresh indulgence of the boss of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region towards Emmanuel Macron. “People do not reason in relation to their ideas but in relation to the opportunity to be elected, it is fabulous, stings the framework of Reconquest. So we go to neo-Wauquiez, centrist herald. Marion Maréchal also feels reinforced in her skepticism by the polls which, for the moment, only credit Laurent Wauquiez with 5%. However, considering that Eric Zemmour will benefit from this change in strategy seems a bit premature.
Europeans: Sarkozy’s advice
The Ifop poll published on Sunday in the JDD, granting between 8% and 11% to LR in Europe, was warmly welcomed at the headquarters of the Republicans. Because right-wing leaders know what Nicolas Sarkozy himself advised elected officials: make a joint list with Renaissance, to avoid disappearance. As The Express wrote it, Jean-François Copé intends to launch the subject during a next political office.
Darmanin the Evil One
On May 13, Internet users were able to discover Gérald Darmanin, all smiles, under an arch of tricolor balloons (orange, gray and white, and not blue, white, red). The photo, posted on social networks by the Minister of the Interior himself, shows the latter participating in the inauguration of a restaurant of the fast-food chain O’Tacos, in Tourcoing, a city from which he was the mayor until 2020. Insignificant? “Very clever, rectifies a relative of Emmanuel Macron. It’s the France of Jérôme Fourquet.” In France before our eyes, the pollster indeed devotes several pages to the culinary phenomenon that has become the tacos, emblem of a new popular mythology. Thus, thanks to his photography, Darmanin undoubtedly hopes to illustrate his links with a France that disconnected politicians no longer see. The string is never too big in politics.
Matignon: what if it was… Wauquiez?
The audacious idea was the subject of very serious discussions around and with Laurent Wauquiez. Should we publicly put pressure on Emmanuel Macron to encourage him to appoint the president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region Prime Minister? But the latter has put the kibosh: exercising power now is not his goal. And the scheme would have reinforced, if things went wrong, the hypothesis of a second round Le Pen-Mélenchon in 2027. Close the ban!
Mélenchon candidate in 2027? Roussel too!
If the towel burns between the communists and the rebellious, it is because their two leaders already see themselves as opponents in 2027. During the stormy meeting of the Nupes, at the beginning of May, told by the menu in The Express, Manuel Bompard, Mélenchon’s lieutenant, jostled his coco comrades, staring at Fabien Roussel: “Who here does better than Jean-Luc?” Silence around the table. “Bompard came out that evening, says Roussel’s entourage today. do not have their finger on the seam of the pants and question this strategy are put in the closet. And it is not the little music of a Nupes primary, ever more insistent, that will make Mélenchon bend. “The day when the organization of a primary or a system of designation of a single candidate is announced, he announces himself as a candidate! The campaign machine is already ready”, swears this communist source who specifies by the same occasion: “Fabien, of course he wants to be a candidate!” Him, it’s him and me, it’s me!