PRIME MINISTER MACRON. As a new five-year term of Emmanuel Macron begins, who will be appointed Prime Minister? Several names are mentioned.
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[Mis à jour le 25 avril 2022 à 13h54] The time for renewal has arrived. After two years as Prime Minister, Jean Castex will resign and leave office in the coming days, following the re-election of Emmanuel Macron. And if the resignation does not necessarily lead to the non-renewal of the mandate, the head of government being appointed by the President of the Republic, the current tenant of Matignon will indeed pack his bags and leave the rue de Varenne. From now on, room for speculation as to who will succeed the former Mr. Olympic Games, his name was taken out of the hat by Emmanuel Macron to the greatest surprise of all observers. Like Edouard Philippe, already in 2017. So there is no doubt that the newly re-elected president could, once again, indulge in the appointment of a personality little or not known to the general public. Just Emmanuel Macron indicated, in Le Figaro at the beginning of April, that he wanted to “always choose the one that appears to be the most compatible with what you want to wear at a given period. This will in any case suppose continuing to move forward in the exceeding.” By setting new prerogatives for the head of government (read below) while cajoling the left-wing electorate which contributed to his re-election after appointing two ex-LRs to Matignon during the First five-year term, who could become the new Prime Minister.
The name of Emmanuel Macron’s possible new Prime Minister has been the subject of much speculation for several weeks. Promoting a minister from the current government, appointing a personality who is still unknown or who has not taken part in the first five-year term, choosing a personality with more left-wing sensitivity after five years with a head of government from the right, or even appointing a woman… So many questions on which the candidate for his re-election remains mysterious, just like his entourage. However, several names are beginning to circulate.
Julien Denormandie, a Macron faithful appointed Prime Minister?
According to several indiscretions coming back with insistence, Julien Denormandie could be Emmanuel Macron’s next prime minister. The current Minister of Agriculture is one of the closest to the President of the Republic. At 41, this engineer is one of the Walkers of the first hour. In 2016, when he was deputy chief of staff to the Minister of the Economy Emmanuel Macron, he participated in the founding of En Marche, occupying the post of deputy secretary general. Since then, he has been in (almost) every government, except for Philippe I, who was in turn appointed Secretary of State to the Minister for Territorial Cohesion, then Minister for Towns and Housing, before taking the portfolio of Agriculture since the summer of 2020. A time mentioned to lead Emmanuel Macron’s 2022 campaign, he finally remained in the ministry to manage the impact of the war in Ukraine on agriculture. However, not enough to slow down the ascent of the quadra. “Choosing him sends no more signal to the left than to the right. At best he is seen as a historic macronist. At worst, he is not seen at all because he is not known and this is undoubtedly what pleases Macron”, had commented an adviser to the president with Paris Match. And if it is not for the first post-reelection government, “Macron will finish his second term with Julien at Matignon”, had launched this same regular of the palace.
Elisabeth Borne at Matignon 31 years after Edith Cresson?
What to leave, by then, the place for a woman? The hypothesis does not seem absurd. 31 years after Edith Cresson, Emmanuel Macron could appoint a female profile as Prime Minister. The name of a policy resonates particularly lately in the mysteries of power: that ofElisabeth Borne. A profile that could correspond to the various criteria that seem to be required for this Macron 2 chapter: a personality capable, in particular, of carrying the perilous pension reform, of implementing ecological planning – the Prime Minister will be “directly responsible” for this. announced Emmanuel Macron during the campaign between two rounds but also to be from the left when it is this political flank that the head of state is flirting with in order to be re-elected. The current Minister of Labor seems to correspond to these prerequisites, she who already holds the portfolio linked to the main reform desired by the president-candidate, after having passed through the Ecological Transition and the direction of the cabinet of Ségolène Royal when she was Minister of Ecology, especially since she is presented as a former close to the Socialist Party.
What are the other rumors for the new Prime Minister?
However, nothing is definitively recorded and Emmanuel Macron will not announce the name of the Prime Minister immediately. Other names have circulated, such as that of Sebastien LecornuMinister of Overseas, also loyal to the outgoing President, or even that ofAlexis Kholer, the current secretary general of the Elysée. But his divisive personality could deprive him of a ministerial promotion. Moreover, the assumption Christine Lagarde was mentioned. But the current boss of the European Central Bank, ex-Minister of the Economy of Nicolas Sarkozy, should not leave her post for Matignon.
A Prime Minister in charge of ecological planning
After a five-year term led by Prime Ministers from the right, the Head of State seeks to rally on the left, an electorate thanks to which he was re-elected President of the Republic, himself being aware of it. It is in this sense that, during his meeting between the two rounds in Marseille, he had announced new prerogatives for the resident of Matignon to widen his electoral base: that of “ecological planning”, a theme dear to Jean-Luc Mélenchon that Emmanuel Macron has taken over. Emmanuel Macron has indeed promised a Prime Minister “directly in charge of ecological planning” and “supported by two strong ministers”, responsible respectively for “energy planning” and “territorial ecological planning”. So, who to take on this role? Two names are mentioned: that of the European deputy LREM Pascal Canfin, President of the Environment Committee of the European Parliament, ex-EELV, Minister of François Hollande and former Managing Director of WWF France. Moreover, that of Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizetex-Secretary of State and Minister of Ecology under Sarkozy.