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.
The RN invites Zemmour to take history lessons
No winter break on the far right. This Wednesday, November 15, on CNews, Eric Zemmour once again indulged in his favorite activity: attacking Marine Le Pen. The latter had recently assured that she was opposed to the idea of ”war of civilizations”, a concept cherished by the president of Reconquest. “It does not surprise me from a politician who thinks that Islam is compatible with the Republic. In truth, since 2017, she has tried to seduce the electorate of Jean-Luc Mélenchon to the defiance of right-wing voters, those of François Fillon and mine,” he retorts.
Response from the National Rally: “I never thought that Islam was incompatible with the Republic, Eric Zemmour should take history lessons, says Pierre Meurin, deputy for Gard. In the 16th and 17th centuries, we had a strong Franco-Turkish community in the country, and it has never posed any major difficulty. The Franco-Ottoman Alliance which lasted 300 years made it possible to protect Christians in the Ottoman territories. We have a long history with Muslims less conflictual than we believe. The concept of a war of civilizations is completely fallacious.” Eric Zemmour will appreciate it.
Macron invites a new face to Saint-Denis
They said it and assume it: Eric Ciotti (LR), Olivier Faure (PS) and Manuel Bompard (LFI) will not go to the second episode of the Saint-Denis meetings organized by Emmanuel Macron. Enough to annoy the latter who, so as not to appear too alone around the table and at the risk of getting bored with Marine Tondelier (EELV), Jordan Bardella (RN), Fabien Roussel (PCF) and the presidents of the two chambers Yaël Braun -Pivet and Gérard Larcher, decided to invite a new guest: Guillaume Lacroix, the president of the Radical Left Party (PRG).
The person concerned was obviously not going to decline the invitation, especially since this is the first time that the anti-Nupes left will be represented in this gathering of party leaders. And Lacroix will not come empty-handed. He formulates to L’Express the two warnings that he will give on Friday November 17 to the Head of State: “We must be wary of the Swiss temptation of referendums on everything and stop procrastinating on the law on the end of life.”
The president and the lesson of Delanoë
“I missed something, I didn’t listen to what Delanoë told me,” Emmanuel Macron confided to an interlocutor some time ago. He advised me never to put a minister as a candidate for municipal elections in Paris.” Will he be able to remember it during the next reshuffle? Will the future Renaissance candidate then leave the government? Gabriel Attal has already assured some: “I want to remain Minister of National Education.” What will Clément Beaune, Olivia Grégoire and the others think?
Legion of Honor: double portion at the Elysée
Emmanuel Macron too often undertakes to decorate recipients with the Legion of Honor himself, to the point of making his cabinet break out in a cold sweat. Suddenly, the Elysée found the solution: the collective decoration award ceremonies no longer concern four to five people, but twice as many, just to sell off stocks!
The liberated socialists of Mélenchon?
With this funny idea of a “moratorium”, which made them “temporarily” take the tangent of the alliance with LFI, the socialists feel relieved, as if freed from a weight. “At least, we stop questioning ourselves every four mornings about the controversial remarks of Mélenchon and his gang,” breathes an oil from the PS group in the National Assembly. Jérôme Guedj, although very attached to the 2022 agreement, has mourned. Nupes was “hijacked” by Mélenchon, and will not be able to “resume its coordination work”.
Even Olivier Faure admitted Tuesday, November 14, during the meeting of the PS group, that the coalition will not revive, reproaching the Insoumis for “the absence of desire to consider their partners as such and not as cronies”. HAS Libé, he nevertheless moderated his remarks: “That does not mean that we will stop working with the Insoumis.” He knows that several socialist deputies, elected by a head in the legislative elections, are terrified of returning to the polls before 2027. The threat of a potential dissolution is a scenario often agitated by Mélenchon and his gang. Many parliamentarians are starting to believe it. “Mélenchon is vengeful and he is entirely capable of putting rebellious candidates against socialists to make them hide. Such a scenario is the assurance of a defeat for the left and a boulevard for the RN”, explains a socialist. Released, but not delivered.
Anglade votes Stayed
The European Renaissance campaign has not yet started, unlike the competition for the head of the Macronist camp’s list. Séjourné, Breton, Boone, Canfin… At the end of the day, it is of course Emmanuel Macron who will choose his foal, but the first supports are starting to flourish.
Pieyre-Alexandre Anglade, president of the European Affairs Committee of the National Assembly and delegate to the European elections for the presidential party, has made his choice: it will be Stéphane Séjourné, the boss of Renaissance. “He is the best candidate to lead the majority list because he combines European experience and national political sense,” explains one of the Head of State’s “Brussels Gentlemen”.
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