Borne receives an SMS to denounce Le Maire, the return of Jérôme Cahuzac – L’Express

Just before the Europeans on June 9, the ceremonies will not go unnoticed. Emmanuel Macron intends to give special luster to the 80th anniversary of the landing of June 6, 44: four days of commemorations, in Brittany and Normandy. US President Joe Biden is expected to attend.

On Sunday November 12, Emmanuel Macron received Sébastien Lecornu. The president encouraged the Minister of Foreign Affairs, sorry, of Defense, to speak before and after his diplomatic tour in the Middle East (he visited Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, the Qatar, in Israel then again in Qatar), what he did: on LCI first, then on JDD last Sunday, again on BFM this Tuesday.

Lecornu’s profile is appreciated at the Elysée, where his sense of history is highlighted. At the Palace, it was noticed that he had made a search at the Hôtel de Brienne to find the office occupied by Georges Mandel when he was Clemenceau’s chief of staff. And that he was concerned about restoring the tomb of Aristide Briand, who no longer has a beneficiary.

Liot courted, Liot cajoled. But Liot is angry! For several weeks now, the Élysée and the government have been going out of their way to coax Bertrand Pancher and his troops. The majority also indulged in this game of seduction on Tuesday, by inviting the president of the parliamentary group and some of his followers to the office of the boss of the Renaissance deputies, as revealed by Politico. But the declaration of Bruno Le Maire, who pleads this Thursday on Franceinfo to reduce the duration of compensation for unemployed people over 55, greatly displeased the MP for Meuse. And he wanted to make it known… to Elisabeth Borne: an SMS sent to the Prime Minister, in the form of a long diatribe on this “inconsistent, made without any consultation” announcement, concluded with a warning: “I hopes that the words of your Minister of the Economy do not commit your government.”

Politics ? A “couples’ affair” believes François Hollande. The former President of the Republic sees no other explanation for the countless mockery that Nicolas Sarkozy addresses to him at each event where they meet. Childishness which the socialist does not take umbrage as it shows how much his predecessor still cannot digest his defeat of 2012. Who still remembers the photographs of Paris Match in 2005, at the time of the European referendum, where the two laughed.

“Sarkozy and I have been a couple for twenty years… An old couple who can no longer stand each other,” smiles Hollande who admits a half-hearted regret that a revenge was not played out in the 2017 presidential election “If he had won the right-wing primary, the situation would almost force me to be a candidate,” explains the man who did not run, giving way to Emmanuel Macron who, for his part, forms his couple with Marine Le Pen. And Mélenchon in all this? “A single”.

Out of sight (in the eye), out of mind. Jérôme Cahuzac, withdrawn from political life since his conviction in 2016 to three years in prison and five years of ineligibility, would like to rediscover the pleasure of being elected. One of his friends, whom he often speaks on the phone, assures him: the former Minister of the Budget wants to become mayor or deputy again in Lot-et-Garonne. His presence, increased in recent days, in the newspaper Sud Ouest (which gave him an interview on November 9) is probably not a coincidence. Asked about the possibility of this return, the former President of the Republic François Hollande simply… rolled his eyes to the sky.

Difficult to say if the idea of ​​a presidential candidacy is seriously in the head of the First Secretary of the PS, but those around him do not hesitate to think about it (very) hard for him. We smile at the possibility, especially since the road has been long since the PS collapsed below the 2% mark with Anne Hidalgo in 2022 and has since linked its destiny to LFI within the Nupes. “If there is a common candidacy, he has every legitimacy to embody it because he is a socialist. In the end, it is socialism which will make the bridge between rebellious radicalism and the center-left of Emmanuel Macron”, wants to believe a devotee of Olivier Faure.

Without wishing to offend the leader of the roses, his popularity is far from being that of a future presidential candidate… Riposte from the same lieutenant: “François Hollande arrived very late on the radar. He ended up winning the socialist primary of 2011 then the presidential election the following year. Olivier has seen it done and knows how it works.” After having simmered the inventory of Hollande’s five-year term (causing the rift between the two men), here is Faure eager to draw inspiration from him. Who would’ve believed that ?

For the European elections, the Republicans are doubling their imagination. Michel Barnier, Emmanuelle Mignon, Vincent Jeanbrun…: the potential successors of François-Xavier Bellamy – himself a claimed candidate – to take the head of the LR list have multiplied in recent months. A right-wing executive, between irony and compassion, reacts: “With all these trial balloons launched in the press by management, you really have to be a Jesuit Catholic to accept being treated like a s***”.