The future Prime Minister could be an experienced personality, who masters technical subjects and who could receive the approval of centrists, of a part of the left as well as the right. Didier Migaud?
Emmanuel Macron may have already chosen his Prime Minister. Did the head of state really dismiss out of hand the Lucie Catstets option, presented by the New Popular Front, without having an alternative in mind? According to indiscretions from people close to the president, he intends to appoint a head of government before the end of this week, “before Sunday” even according to Le Parisien, which relies on a recent interlocutor, which suggests that he already has concrete leads and a few names that seem suitable for Matignon.
If almost nothing leaks from the latest meetings, the consultations at the Elysée are progressing. The head of state, according to his advisers, has a very clear idea of the profile that the future tenant of Matignon must embody. Didier Migaud would be one of these personalities able to wear the costume. Socialist deputy of Isère for 21 years, local elected official for decades, this lawyer by training was president of the Court of Auditors from 2010 to 2020, before taking over the presidency of the High Authority for Transparency in Public Life (HATVP). A connoisseur of technical and budgetary files, in short.
Didier Migaud’s name has been mentioned several times by Emmanuel Macron and his entourage, according to Le Monde, Le Nouvel Obs and BFMTV. The head of state is said to be quite convinced of his ability to convince part of the PS and part of LR to open up an acceptable path of governance, in the midst of an institutional impasse. This socialist is well known to right-wing parliamentarians for his budgetary orthodoxy and his obsession with controlling finances. He could embody a technical consensus that could obtain a majority of formal or tacit support in Parliament.
The President also had a conversation with the President of the National Assembly on the subject, at the Elysée Palace, a few days ago. Yaël Braun-Pivet gave Emmanuel Macron a sketch of the ideal Prime Minister: “a current leader of an institution, an authority, who knows Parliament and comes from the left to avoid censorship”. A profile for which Didier Migaud ticks all the boxes.