This second five-year term like no other is far from over, yet 2027 and its cohort of putative candidates are already moving forward. THE last reshuffle with Gabriel Attal at its head is already far away, here are the European elections from all the dangers. Behind the scenes, some are learning to dodge tripping, others are familiarizing themselves with the art of conspiracy, in short, everyone is preparing for the post-Emmanuel Macron era with rigor and determination. The L’Express political department 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.
Files, but absent
Renaissance established a file of polling stations by integrating the scores for the 2017 and 2022 presidential elections and the 2019 European elections. This made it possible to distribute 4 million copies of the Macron-Hayer leaflet (out of 6 million printed) in ” the best Macronist neighborhoods in France, almost a stone’s throw away. Objective: end up mobilizing voters in favor of the presidential majority. Currently, one in two Macron voters do not intend to vote on June 9.
Macron: welcome
It is a minister of the first circle who says this, after the proposal made by Emmanuel Macron in The Parisian to debate with Marine Le Pen: “It’s not strategy, he had fun by titillating her. And when you have fun, it’s not always very effective…”
Terminal: thanks, but no
Yaël Braun-Pivet is one of the leaders pushing to appoint a woman as president of the Constitutional Council in 2025. Not her, no, but why not Elisabeth Borne? Informed of this – commendable! – intention, the former Prime Minister warned the President of the National Assembly: thank you, but no. Both women want to play an important political role in 2027…
Held in the viewfinder
Aurore Bergé’s reception of the Renaissance deputies two days after the European elections of June 9, revealed by Politico, does not go unnoticed. “She is one of the ministers who has the fewest requests for campaign meetings,” points out a leader of the Macronist party. The group lives well.
At LFI, the privilege of campaign speeches…
For one of its major European campaign rallies, Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s party met in Aubervilliers, on the outskirts of Paris, on May 25. On the menu of speeches, students from the Sevran high school who denounce their study conditions, an association of neighborhood mothers who demand more security, trade unionists, Jean-Luc Mélenchon then Manon Aubry in conclusion. There were only a few places left for the other rebels from Seine-Saint-Denis, a department where the movement has nine deputies out of thirteen.
The meeting also opened with a speech by Bastien Lachaud, local LFI deputy. A privilege which was not granted to her colleague Clémentine Autain during Manon Aubry’s campaign launch on March 16 in Villepinte, in the constituency from which Autain was elected. Privilege of people who do not criticize the leader… There is another who would have liked to speak in Aubervilliers: it is Eric Coquerel, deputy for the neighboring constituency. Although not very critical of the chef, this historic road partner of Jean-Luc Mélenchon is no longer really in the odor of sanctity and was therefore not entitled to his moment.
Old age programming law: the art of burying a law
Here is one more sea serpent from the Emmanuel Macron era… In November 2023, the National Assembly adopted the “aging well” law including an amendment to put on the agenda a law on old age programming, a promise which date of the first five-year term. The then Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, and Aurore Bergé, Minister of Solidarity, confirmed in the chamber that such a text would see the light of day in 2024. A few months later, at the end of January 2024 in the Social Affairs Committee, the Minister of Labor , Health and Solidarity, Catherine Vautrin is committed in her turn and indicates that she has contacted the Council of State to confirm the legal feasibility of the programming law, an obligatory passage in many texts.
On April 8, the “aging well” law was even promulgated, with its article 10 which provides “before December 31, 2024, then every five years, a multi-year programming law for old age”. But in the meantime, the mail intended for the Council of State and promised by Vautrin was lost on the way, or rather was never sent… In the hemicycle on Wednesday May 29, the minister admitted that the Council had never been seized, placing the responsibility on the Secretary General of the Government. Translation: the Elysée and Matignon blocked the referral to the Council, understanding that it would confirm the feasibility of an old age programming law. But Bercy rolled his eyes, assuring that finances would not allow it, especially after the big check made to angry farmers at the start of the year. “We cannot block the roads with walkers to get money, as others have done with tractors,” laments PS deputy Jérôme Guedj who continues to demand this text. In total, since 2019, no less than three consultations have been held around an old age law. During the 2024 edition of the health fair “SanteExpo, Porte de Versailles, mid-May, Catherine Vautrin raised the idea of holding a fourth consultation with the Economic, Social and Environmental Council.
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