The time of the succession did not come: Emmanuel Macron recalled his camp to the order on Saturday during a meeting, intimating him to “act” rather than projecting himself around 2027, barring the road to Gabriel Attal who had just taken a step towards a candidacy for the presidential election. “Let us act, let’s stay united, be responsible and work for the country,” said the President of the Republic, a surprise guest of the “Young En Marche” (Jem) meeting at the Winter Cirque.
“If in the next two years, we spend our time talking about 2027, to do nothing, to be in the calculations, to be in the divisions”, then “none of us” will be able to win the presidential election, he insisted, obviously moved for the 10 years of this youth movement created before his own, En Marche!.
Faced with the Macronie reunited -two of her former prime ministers, Élisabeth Borne and Gabriel Attal, the president of the National Assembly Yaël Braun -Pivet, several ministers and deputies -, he told the Jem that he would have “needed (them) for in two years, for in five years, for in ten years”.
By making these words, Emmanuel Macron seemed to cut the new boss of the Renaissance macronist party, Gabriel Attal, who had just taken a new step in his momentum. “This July 5, 2025, I want to offer you to set the first milestones of a new path for our youth and for our country. This path is the one with you, with Renaissance, I wish to offer to the French for 2027”, he promised, making the oath to do everything “to lead his supporters” in two years on the path of victory “.
The two men have been notoriously cold since Gabriel Attal’s visit to Matignon and the president’s decision to dissolve the National Assembly on June 9, 2024, for which he was not consulted. Having since become president of the group in the Assembly and having taken the reins of the party, the former Prime Minister does not hide his ambitions for 2027, acting in the preparation of a program, which strongly supports the Régalien, and defends the fundamentals of Macronism as the refusal to increase taxes and the fight against the extreme right.
Ambitions
With the constitutional impossibility of representing itself in 2027 and forced to govern without majority since 2022, Emmanuel Macron wants the last two years of his second five -year term to be “useful”. Even if it means reframing the ambitions that are joining in the current government coalition with an Édouard Philippe already in the countryside, the president of LR Bruno Retailleau who does not hide his intentions and a Gabriel Attal now on the ranks.
Already Thursday, he recalled his Prime Minister François Bayrou (MoDem) to order and asked for “discipline” within the government. “There will be time for debates, programs. There, there is time for the government of France,” he said, in particular, instead of the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau, who wished this week in a platform to subsidize the production of wind and photovoltaic energy for the sole benefit of nuclear.
A position rejected by the macronist camp, which defends the principle of an energy mix including a revival of nuclear. In fact, if the tensions were palpable on Saturday, the historic macronist camp is found on one point: criticizing the right -handed drift of the Republicans and their new president. “The national rally and the Republicans vote together to try to impose on our regression planet on regression,” castigated Gabriel Attal, promising to “be in their path”.