Bruno Le Maire has already said goodbye to the French in a video published on X. If he leaves to teach in Switzerland, the resigning minister has left the door open to a possible return.
“After seven years spent playing the government’s banker, Bruno Le Maire is about to leave France without even saying Bercy!” joked in mid-July on X The Chained Duckspecifying that he had heard of a landing point in Lausanne, Switzerland, for the resigning Minister of the Economy. While a new government should be announced next week, the Bercy tenant said his farewells, Thursday, September 12, in a video addressed to the French and published on X. “A new page will be written for me and I will return to my first love: teaching,” confirmed the former French teacher.
Exile in Switzerland?
“What is written in the Canard is false: the minister will not leave France, words have their importance”, reacted the office of Bruno Le Maire this summer after the announcements of the web-footed bird. The minister’s entourage had also particularly insisted, with the AFP, whose Opinion echoed, on the fact that there was “a difference” between “leaving the country” and “going to work” abroad. Before confusing the issue: “Perhaps, moreover, he will not go to work elsewhere and will work in France.”
But the indiscretion of the Chained Duck had quickly been confirmed in the columns of The Geneva TribuneRevealing that Bruno Le Maire was “in discussions to teach in Lausanne”, the Swiss daily explained that the resigning minister was considering collaborating with The Enterprise for Society Center (E4S), a joint center of the University of Lausanne (UNIL), the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).
The center, founded four years ago and dedicated to economics and management, aims in particular to increase the impact of academia on businesses and public authorities. Bruno Le Maire was reportedly approached, as were other personalities, to help create stimulating dialogues between students and political decision-makers.
Bruno Le Maire, “soon” back in politics?
“I really hope that we will maintain the bond that we have woven for seven years, and so I say see you soon,” concluded Bruno Le Maire in his video broadcast on Thursday. Unequivocal words, spoken by a man who has never hidden his presidential ambitions. “My greatest political battles are ahead of me,” assured the Point the one who could well return to the forefront by 2027.