A week after the appointment of the new Prime Minister, Emmanuel Macron and Michel Barnier are gradually defining the contours of their relationship. With a common interest: to show that their association can work, but also with nuances on their respective prerogatives.
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Emmanuel Macron begins to interpret his new role in the new executive couple that he created by appointing Michel Barnierwith one challenge: to show that he has heard the message from the ballot boxes and that he will therefore become a president who presides but no longer governs.
And it was in Le Havre, on Thursday 12 September, alongside Édouard Philippe, his former Prime Minister, during a walkabout after the ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Liberation, that the Head of State spoke of his relationship with Michel Barnier, declaring: ” We work in an intimacy, in a trust. He works, he listens, he consults, he will build. It is up to the government to carry out projects, to pass laws, but also to administer. The president has his own skills. »
” Specific skills ” for Emmanuel Macron, but not ” reserved areas “, in the words of Michel Barnier before the Republican parliamentarians gathered on September 12 in Haute-Savoie. For the Prime Minister, we must speak of ” shared domains “, implying that there is therefore no exclusivity for the head of state concerning Defense or Foreign Affairs. The terms of the ” cooperation ” within the executive are clearly not yet fully defined.
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