What would politics be without its stunts, its low blows, its twisted blows, its dirty tricks…? Because, as Edouard Philippe would say, “we have to do things seriously without taking ourselves seriously”, the political service of L’Express offers to immerse you in the corridors of power thanks to a weekly meeting, on our website .
Indiscreet and much more: find our political newsletter every evening from Monday to Thursday at 9 p.m. in your mailbox. To register, it’s here.
Ruffin and Macron’s ex-pen at the same table
Jean-Marc Jancovici, an engineer who has become the high priest of the climate, intends to make his think tank, The Shift project, the place where political debates on climate issues take place. Thus he had the original idea of bringing together on June 17 in Nantes, during the university of the “Shifters”, the deputy LFI François Ruffin, Jonathan Guémas, former speech adviser to Emmanuel Macron, Gilles Boyer, deputy European and close among those close to Edouard Philippe, and Johanna Rolland, socialist mayor of Nantes. The four participants will discuss to try to answer the question: “Can ecological planning do without a strong societal narrative?” Guémas and Boyer will no doubt not forget to observe the political animal Ruffin closely and provide their respective “bosses” with a detailed account of the strengths and weaknesses of the putative candidate for 2027.
Denormandie does not want to go to the Elysée
It is someone very close to Julien Denormandie who says it: no, the former Minister of Housing and then of Agriculture during Emmanuel Macron’s first five-year term will not go to the Elysée – some imagined him, for example, to become general secretary in place of Alexis Kohler. On the other hand, “he misses politics”, says the same, who does not exclude his return to government, at the head of a vast Ministry of Social Affairs or even higher, as rumor has been circulating for weeks.
This famous 1968 agreement with Algeria…
Gérald Darmanin, who had lunch this Wednesday at the presidency of the Senate with Gérard Larcher to prepare the continuation of the examination of the immigration bill, had received the interview of Edouard Philippe at L’Express before its publication on our site – attention from the former Prime Minister. And the Minister of the Interior had smiled when he saw that Philippe recommended going back to the 1968 agreement with Algeria. Because he thought that it was LR who would have made it one of his hobbyhorses – but Eric Ciotti, Olivier Marleix and Bruno Retailleau did not address the question in their interview with Sunday newspaper May 21.
Cazeneuve-Philippe: listen to the difference
He was Minister of the Interior, therefore in charge of immigration issues, and Prime Minister. Bernard Cazeneuve, who brings together the members of his movement La Convention on Saturday in Créteil (in the presence in particular of François Hollande), doubts the effectiveness of the spectacular proposal made in L’Express by his successor at Matignon, Edouard Philippe – to return to the 1968 agreement with Algeria. “We don’t solve problems in this way, but face-to-face, without any external communication”, confides Cazeneuve, who regrets that immigration has become “a subject that we preempt rather than a subject that we treat”.
Aurélien Pradié and the 2027 hypothesis
Wauquiez, Bertrand, Lisnard… There is no shortage of putative candidacies on the right with a view to 2027. Within the Republicans (LR), several elected officials are wondering about the ambitions of Aurélien Pradié, who revealed himself during the sequence of retreats. Pradié, candidate? A relative of the Lot deputy sketches a hypothesis: “2027 for someone like him, this only exists in a very specific case. Wauquiez and Bertrand are at 4% a year before the presidential election and decide not to go there. go. This hypothesis is extremely thin but it is not thinner than the others.”