This second five-year term like no other is far from over, yet 2027 and its cohort of putative candidates are already moving forward. Behind the scenes, some learn to dodge trippers, others become familiar with the art of conspiracy, in short, everyone prepares post-Emmanuel Macron with rigor and determination. The political department of L’Express offers to help you follow, thanks to a weekly meeting on our websitethe progress of those ambitious people who hope to climb, quickly and without injury, the steps of power.
Xavier Bertrand and the turkeys who vote at Christmas
While Nicolas Sarkozy’s former minister, Eric Woerth, is charged with a mission to “simplify the territorial organization and clarify skills”, Xavier Bertrand has serious doubts about the presidential will. “The regional presidents who ask Emmanuel Macron for more decentralization are the turkeys who vote at Christmas!”, says the boss of Hauts-de-France.
At the PS, good accounts make good enemies
What luck for Raphaël Glucksmann! For the campaign of its candidate in the European elections, the Socialist Party has decided to put its hand in the portfolio. No question of playing the money grabber, like with Anne Hidalgo during the last presidential election. In 2022, the PS was reluctant to borrow more than 800,000 euros from Crédit Coopératif and a host of socialist federations even refused to put money into the pot. Enough to provoke black anger from the candidate and her followers against Olivier Faure. This time, the first secretary will be more generous and is considering a campaign “around 4 million euros”, confirms his faithful lieutenant, Pierre Jouvet, who offers a concise justification: “We are sure to be reimbursed this time.”
Towards a great reconciliation among the socialists?
Now that they are alone, in the absence of a common Nupes list, the socialists are looking for allies… Candidates are becoming rare, but those who hated each other yesterday could turn around, come time for the European elections. While most polls give it nearly 10% of voting intentions, the PS believes in its lucky star, and intends to reproduce the feat of… environmentalist Yannick Jadot in 2019 (13%). “Alone, we won’t succeed,” murmur the management executives around Olivier Faure.
An observation (almost) shared by… François Hollande or even Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, who do not look favorably on the list launched by the radicals of the left, under the aegis of Guillaume Lacroix (PRG), as it could weaken the pink house. “We must bring together everything that can be brought together in the socialist world, from us to Bernard Cazeneuve (who left the PS, Editor’s note) and Place publique,” push many around the first secretary. A great reconciliation in sight?
This minister who has a crush on Wauquiez
There is a minister in the current government who predicts the election in 2027 to the Elysée of… Laurent Wauquiez. His name is Hervé Berville, Secretary of State for the Sea. And the daring man even confided his bet – we didn’t say his wish – to Emmanuel Macron! He does not underestimate the problems of sincerity of the president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, but underlines his precedence on the problems of assistantship.
The above-ground meeting of ecologists
Marie Toussaint’s first campaign meeting, last Saturday, raised eyebrows even in the ranks of environmentalists. It must be said that certain sequences did not lack originality, at the risk of being perceived as completely out of place, such as the appearance on stage of three dancers who are engaged in a “booty therapy” class, a dance so-called therapeutic buttocks, allowing, according to the instigators, to “rekindle” one’s “power of life”.
An executive, encountered in the room: “The poster was a bit of a mentalist show, in the end it was more of a seminar than a meeting. If we weren’t part of our family, we probably had the impression of ‘listening behind a door.’
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