This second five-year term like no other is far from over, yet 2027 and its cohort of putative candidates are already moving forward. This last reshuffle with Gabriel Attal at its head – and that puts Rachida Dati back in the saddle – is a new turning point. Behind the scenes, some are learning to dodge tripping, others are familiarizing themselves with the art of conspiracy, in short, everyone is preparing for the post-Emmanuel Macron era with rigor and determination. The L’Express political department 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.
Breton’s ulterior motives
If Thierry Breton’s recent tweet (“Despite her qualities, Ursula von der Leyen outvoted by her own party”) was hardly to the taste of the Elysée, the French commissioner has several ulterior motives. “He sees a pattern of failure for the outgoing president of the Commission on the one hand, and on the other hand he is aiming for a position of executive vice-president in the next Commission, he has no desire to give up his place to Amélie de Montchalin or Clément Beaune,” says one of his interlocutors.
A breakfast at Oudéa-Castéra
They had seen each other for the first time at Catherine Vautrin’s house. The female ministers of the Attal government will meet – normally on Wednesday March 20 – for breakfast at Amélie Oudéa-Castéra. At their request, she will familiarize them with the Olympic Games.
Le Pen impresses a minister
It is a minister who attended the debate on Ukraine on Tuesday March 12 in the National Assembly who said: “Marine Le Pen made remarks of a register ten times higher than that of LR for example, I am obliged to see it…”
Macron and “the people who moan”
According to one of his close friends, the president “does not believe in negative determinism” for the European elections. While many in his entourage are panicking at the polls showing the National Rally rising ever higher, ever further ahead of the presidential camp, Emmanuel Macron would be convinced that everything is still possible. “He can’t stand the spirit of defeat and people who complain,” continues our interlocutor. But what is the head of state based on to still believe in a victory in the European elections? “On nothing concrete, it’s a pure psychological reflex for him.” This is reassuring.
The Mayor: you only come back to life once
Bruno Le Maire does not believe that a primary is a suitable system to nominate the next majority candidate for the 2027 presidential election. He who participated in the right-wing primary (finishing with 2.38% of the votes after having been quite high in the polls for a while) remarks with a smile: “We can be resurrected once, not twice!”
Things aren’t going well among the comrades, and it’s a good laugh LFI
It’s the new game among the Insoumis, a bet before the Europeans: “Will the steak do more or less than the vegans?” Led by Léon Deffontaine, the young wolf of Fabien Roussel, the communist list (3.5% of voting intentions) is two small points ahead of that of the animalist party (1.5%), led by Hélène Thouy, in the last wave of the Ipsos electoral survey. The PCF candidate still fails to break through in the polls, to the delight of the LFI oils who mock the media hype around Roussel and Deffontaine.
“We know her there hype among the communists… Ian Brossat was a better candidate and he hoped to make 5% in 2019 (Editor’s note: he finished at 3)”, observes Manon Aubry, head of the LFI list, who, mockingly, adds: “Fabien Roussel, it’s is the same. This is the worst airtime/score ratio in the election.”
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