This second five-year term like no other is far from over, yet 2027 and its cohort of putative candidates are already moving forward. Behind the scenes, some learn to dodge trippers, others become familiar with the art of conspiracy, in short, everyone prepares post-Emmanuel Macron with rigor and determination. The political department of L’Express offers to help you follow, thanks to a weekly meeting on our websitethe progress of those ambitious people who hope to climb, quickly and without injury, the steps of power.
Thierry Breton, lead in the wing
It is a Macronist tenor who says it: the hypothesis of Thierry Breton as head of the majority list in the European elections has moved back three boxes. The reason ? The European Commissioner, CEO of Atos for ten years, could be caught up in the controversies surrounding the French IT flagship, after the announcement of its split plan.
Motion of censure: the trick of the Macronists…
The majority is on the lookout for the slightest avenues of passage to avoid the vote of a motion of censure on the finance bill. Currently under study, an avenue that may seem baroque: getting certain overseas deputies to sign the motion of censure… but not to vote for it!
…and the lack of government solidarity
It’s already not very pleasant to see part of the National Assembly asking for your dismissal, so without comrades to feel supported, it’s enough to cause a little anger. On October 20, there were only a very small handful of ministers around Elisabeth Borne at the time of the vote, then the verdict, concerning the motions of censure filed by LFI and the RN after 49.3 on the draft finance law. Matignon saw an unthinkable lack of esprit de corps and sent a short annoyed message to all ministerial offices to remind them of the good “principle of governmental solidarity”. Damn loneliness of the boss…
When Emmanuel Macron forgets Palestine
In the first report of the famous meeting in Saint-Denis sent (before it was made public) by Emmanuel Macron to party leaders, the situation in Palestine did not appear. It was Manuel Bompard, the coordinator of LFI, who asked him to add a sentence on the subject, he who had called for a political initiative during the round table on August 30 and expressed his fear of a new outbreak of violence .
The Elysée slows down (but defends) Yaël Braun-Pivet
Yaël Braun-Pivet had wanted to go to Israel even before last weekend, but the Elysée encouraged her to wait a little. Afterwards, the executive refused to overwhelm the President of the National Assembly, even if her remarks on the spot seemed more unequivocal than those of Emmanuel Macron in his various interventions.
The PS, Jérôme Guedj, and Pandora’s box
After the stubborn refusal to qualify the acts of Hamas on October 7 as “terrorist” and the words of Mélenchon referring Israel and the small Islamist group back to back, the PS deputy Jérôme Guedj was the first to declare that the question of remaining within the alliance “was a question”. An exit welcomed by certain socialists, but which had the gift of annoying (a mild euphemism) Olivier Faure, the First Secretary of the PS, who criticized the person concerned for a solitary exit which presented the parties with a fait accompli. “Guedj opened a Pandora’s box,” admits a Faure faithful, who recalls that the deputy for Essonne, a few weeks earlier, campaigned ardently for a common Nupes list for the Europeans. Would Olivier Faure have preferred to procrastinate, even in the face of the open crisis on the left? “This is how we must understand the moratorium,” sneers a deputy. To choose is to renounce.
Manuel Bompard doesn’t like caviar
The revelations of L’Express on the secret dinners organized by several oils of the Nupes – including Insoumis – to prepare an alliance without the cumbersome Mr. Mélenchon did not really please the person concerned, nor his entourage who keeps the firm hand on the rebellious movement. Comment from Manuel Bompard, upon reading the article on the feasts of which he is not: “I prefer not to be invited to the boxes of the Stade de France or to dinners in Paris… The caviar left, that’s not isn’t really my thing.”
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