Prime Minister, the head of government intends to remain so. “ I want to continue to meet (the) challenges (…) facing our country said Elisabeth Borne to the Sunday newspaper. For the Prime Minister, the important thing is ” to advance even if, she admits in The JDD“ I have no doubt that some would see themselves in my place “.
As this weekly put it loosely, Élisabeth Borne “ has no intention of letting go !
Ciotti and the Shadow Cabinet
On the right, something new. The Les Républicains party has a shadow cabinet, in other words, a counter-government. President of this right-wing party, Éric Ciotti reveals its composition in The Sunday newspaper. In all, 32 national secretaries mixing all the tendencies of the Republicans and who will be, at the same time, responsible in particular for coordinating the programmatic work of the party ” with a view to building a work-study project “, explain The JDD.
Wauquiez, the return
He breaks two years of silence. “Him” is Laurent Wauquiez. Hope of many activists Les Républicains, the former minister and current president of the Rhône-Alpes region (south-eastern center of the country), presents his ideas for France. “ I, president… “, seems to say Laurent Wauquiez on the front page of the weekly Pointto which this figurehead of the French right delivers on ten pages ” his project for France “.
In the interview he gave to Pointthe former president of the Les Républicains party denounces the ideology of deconstruction but also “the” Rebellion “Organized by the supreme courts (…) which, in the 1970s and 1980s assumed the power to set aside the law, such as the Court of Cassation, the Council of State, the European Court of Human Rights , the Court of Justice of the European Union and, partly the Constitutional Council “. According to Laurent Wauquiez, “ the supreme courts have more power today than elected officials chosen by the people, whereas they have no democratic legitimacy! “.
How does Laurent Wauquiez intend to correct this? ” By enshrining in the Constitution a simple principle requiring that the highest courts, with the exception of the Constitutional Council, cannot disregard the law. When the people have spoken, the law that reflects their will must apply “, he says to the Point. According to its principle thus enacted, the Council of State could not have rendered ” almost impossible to carry out deportations to the border “.
Without going so far as to advocate Frexit, that is to say the exit of France from the European Union – like Brexit, the exit of the United Kingdom from the said Union – Laurent Wauquiez, thus draws in THE Pointthe backbone of his presidential program.
Europeans, the crash test
The French right is trying to get back in the saddle, in view of the European elections next year. A vote of all dangers for her. According to an Ifop poll for The Sunday newspaper, a list of the National Rally led by its president, Jordan Bardella, would come first in the European elections in France, collecting 26% of voting intentions, tied with Nupes, if this left-wing alliance presented a single list. Next would come a Renaissance list led by the macronist Stéphane Séjourné, 22%, a Les Républicains list led by Michel Barnier collecting only 11%, indicates The JDD.
The aporia of the right
A worrying survey for the French right, which remains becalmed in the eternal debate: what European line for it? Adrift since the rout of their candidate, Valérie Pécresse, during the presidential election last year, Les Républicains will indeed play nothing less than their survival in the European elections next year.
What drives the weekly The Express to ask the question: which head of list, which line? for Republicans who no longer have the right to make mistakes “. In this magazine, an LR executive precisely explains the importance of the choice of the head of the list and the European line of the party. ” Do we decide to seek out right-wing Macronist voters with a pro-European discourse or do we choose a more right-wing strategy for fear of a hemorrhage towards Zemmour? “, he says to The Express.
From then on, we better understand the dilemma of the Republicans in general and of Laurent Wauquiez in particular. In The Expressone of his relatives, anxious to disconnect the fate of the former LR president from this high-risk ballot “, assures that “ the Europeans are not structuring for him “. But if he does not go and Les Républicains suffer another disaster in the European elections of 2024, what will be left of the party of which Laurent Wauquiez could then take the helm, heading for the presidential election of 2027? As remarked The Express“ taking command of a ship after hitting an iceberg is of limited interest “. Let the would-be captains of the Republican Titanic raise your finger…