It’s crazy how the dissolution really clarified everything! This second five-year term is definitely like no other. The Attal government has already fallen, the European elections have barely ended when the president decides to call legislative elections. With the result that we know… And some sixty days later, here is Michel Barnier in Matignon. For how long?
Bernard Cazeneuve returns to the Assembly…
Were you looking for Bernard Cazeneuve? Please note that it will be in room 6,217, at the National Assembly on November 13 (a date which was only due to the availability of the premises), from 6:30 p.m. One of his supporters, Liot MP Harold Huwart, made him the main protagonist of his debate evening, around the theme “Modern problems, radical solutions”, a reference to the Republican Front of 1956, led by Pierre Mendes France. The organizer of the event claims to be expecting nearly 200 people, including “30 to 40 parliamentarians”, Liot, MoDem and other disillusioned Macronists – for the moment, no socialist has yet confirmed their presence.
AME: the discreet meetings of Geneviève Darrieussecq
The sea serpent still sails. The Minister of Health Geneviève Darrieussecq received last week Patrick Stefanini and Claude Evin, authors in December 2023 of a report on state medical aid (AME). The minister met the two men separately, for scheduling reasons. The report on this system of access to care for foreigners in an irregular situation was commissioned by Elisabeth Borne, during the examination of the immigration law. Geneviève Darrieussecq, open to adjustments to the AME, refuses its outright suppression. She must deal with the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau, who is in favor of its transformation into emergency medical aid (AMU). Both are due to exchange soon.
Yassine Belattar, the goodwill of the president
In politics and at the Elysée in particular, when a controversy swells, it is always practical to be able to point the finger at advisors, guilty of having taken too many liberties. But it seems that in the case of the controversy sparked by the presence of Yassine Belattar in the French delegation accompanying Emmanuel Macron to Morocco, no one can take responsibility for this decision… except the head of state himself. At the Elysée, we swear that it was the president and he alone who wanted to invite the comedian convicted of death threats. If in November 2023, L’Express revealed that Belattar had been received by two advisors to the president, the latter did not, this time, play intermediary or even float the idea of the invitation. Emmanuel Macron does not need anyone to be “interested in anecdotes”.
The Macronists remember Gabriel Attal the “hidden”
“I joined in 2016, then a simple walker, like thousands of you,” writes Gabriel Attal in his letter of application for the position of secretary general of Renaissance. Already, in a column published at the beginning of October by Opiniondepartmental presidents of the party emphasized that the former Prime Minister was “engaged since the early hours of 2016”. An insistence that does not go unnoticed. A member of Emmanuel Macron’s inner circle has a less ideal memory of his beginnings: “At the Lyon meeting, in February 2017, Attal was hiding, because he had also requested the investiture of the PS…” Politics, this merciless universe.
Bayrou’s confidence in Borne
In Twenty months in Matignon (Flammarion), Elisabeth Borne reveals advice that François Bayrou gave her one day: “I have a simple principle in politics, I ask myself what my enemy would like me to do and I do the opposite.” All you had to do was think about it!
Intruders among the Greens
The Green parliamentary group is living well, neither the upcoming congress nor the latest turmoil linked to the Bayou affair seem, for the moment, to disrupt the collective. There is, however, one subject that leaves some green deputies wondering: that of the few former rebels who now sit alongside them. “Humanly it’s nice, we have real debates, confides an MP. The problem is that we don’t have the same political line, Alexis Corbière for example, he’s a Marxist, not an environmentalist.” “We keep certain reflexes and other political markers!” notes ex-LFI Hendrik Davi, who himself noted that the small group of purged people tended to differentiate themselves on a certain number of subjects.
Eric Ciotti’s showcase
Eric Ciotti has found a nice base. The Union of Rights for the Republic (UDR) ended up taking up residence opposite the Republican headquarters, a stone’s throw from the National Assembly… and therefore in the heart of all-Paris politico-media. 11 place du Palais Bourbon, we’re working! And to make it known, we sometimes organize meetings – like this Wednesday morning – facing the bay windows of the building.
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