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?
Kasbarian, this unknown…
Guillaume Kasbarian, whose tweet about Elon Musk caused a stir – “Welcoming the appointment of a counterpart, whose executive was democratically elected, does not constitute support”, had to clarify those around him – is one of these members of the government that Michel Barnier did not know at all when he formed his team. Previously in charge of Housing in the Attal government, he had simply sent a note on his action in the area at the time of the appointment of the Savoyard to Matignon – before receiving, a few days later, a telephone call from the new Prime Minister announcing to him his wallet.
Borne: the sentence about Macron that she did not publish
This is the sentence you won’t read in Twenty months in Matignon (Flammarion). Elisabeth Borne hesitated for a long time but ultimately did not publish a formula that she had written plagiarizing François Fillon (“Who imagines General de Gaulle being indicted?”) and which is part of her reflection on the proper functioning of the executive: “Can we imagine General de Gaulle announcing free condoms?” On December 8, 2022, Emmanuel Macron left it to no one else to announce this measure intended for 18-25 year olds. From the place taken by the Head of State, she undoubtedly had the opportunity to speak with Michel Barnier: the two had a one-on-one lunch this Thursday, November 14.
Censorship: Darmanin’s prognosis
The National Assembly lives under the permanent threat of a motion of censure. If Michel Barnier were to be overthrown, would Emmanuel Macron give a chance to Bernard Cazeneuve, excluded from the race at Matignon in September? Gérald Darmanin doesn’t think so. The former Minister of the Interior rather imagines Emmanuel Macron giving a new right-wing Prime Minister a chance.
HATVP: the puzzle of Migaud’s succession
Since Didier Migaud was appointed Minister of Justice in the Barnier government, the High Authority for Transparency in Public Life has been chaired by Patrick Matet, a member of the body who has therefore become interim president. It is Emmanuel Macron who is responsible for appointing Migaud’s successor but, as usual, the president seems in no hurry. Behind the scenes, in recent weeks, some have been active and campaigned with the Head of State so that he appoints a woman, already a member of the HATVP and appreciated both inside and outside of the authority for its seriousness and cordiality: law professor Anne Levade.
But this scenario was shattered when the secretary general of the government, Claire Landais, looked into the texts regulating the High Authority. According to his interpretation, a member of the HATVP cannot become its titular president. Clearly, everything is done to make Emmanuel Macron procrastinate.
Eric Benzekri, prophet of… happiness?
This close friend of the first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure has a dream… With the future presidential election approaching, Jean-Luc Mélenchon realizes that victory is ultimately impossible, given the rejection he arouses among the population. And ends up withdrawing, in favor of the best placed left-wing candidate. “Like in episode 8 of season 3 of The Black Baron!” enthuses our interlocutor, who has memorized the scenario. Philippe Rickwaert, candidate from the social democratic left, obtains the withdrawal of his counterpart from the radical left, Michel Vidal (the carbon copy of Jean-Luc Mélenchon…). And to think that L’Express had suggested that the screenwriter of the series, Eric Benzekri, was a “prophet of doom”!
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