This second five-year term like no other is far from over, yet 2027 and its cohort of putative candidates are already moving forward. THE last reshuffle with Gabriel Attal at its head is already far away, here are the European elections from all the dangers. 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.
LR and the puzzle of pre-European censorship
The maneuver is as crude as it is effective. LFI and the RN are threatening the government with a motion of censure, failing to present a amending finance bill (PLFR) within 30 days. A few days before the European elections on June 9. The far-right group here sets a trap for the leadership of LR, which has always refused to vote on motions of censure tabled by other political groups. The idea: to portray the right as an eternal crutch of Macronism. “This will establish a useful logic of voting against Macron for June 9, fears an LR executive. The RN will erect the vote of censure against the government, with a choice between Bardella and Hayer.” At the risk, once again, that LR voters disperse.
A rebel in Elisabeth Borne
Freddy Sertin served for a year and a half in the National Assembly, as deputy for the 6th constituency of Calvados, since he was Elisabeth Borne’s deputy. On social networks, he republished a message calling for a strike by liberal doctors… against the Attal government’s projects.
SNCF: discord in the government
One comes from the right, the other from the left. And it shows… The Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire said, this Thursday on BFMTV, how bad he thought about the agreement concluded at the SNCF between the management and the unions, which goes back to the reform of retirements. The Minister for Transport, Patrice Vergriete, explains in private all the good things he thinks: “If the SNCF had still had the monopoly, one would think that there was a problem. This is no longer the case and this It is not the State, therefore the taxpayer, who will put his hand in his pocket.” Still, the company’s CEO, Jean-Pierre Farandou, was summoned immediately to Bruno Le Maire. With Vergriete?
Macron and the deadly gift
Xi Jinping is making a state visit to France on May 6 and 7. When Emmanuel Macron himself made a state visit to China in 2018, he offered his counterpart a horse from the Republican Guard, Vésuve de Brekka, a brown bay gelding given to the Chinese president at the end of his quarantine. Alas… the horse died some time ago.
In the Assembly, Republicans missing?
We could have counted them on the fingers of one hand – not even a whole one. The LR deputies were really, but really not numerous last Monday, during the “budgetary orientation” debate, which saw Bruno Le Maire present to the deputies some avenues for savings in the face of the debt and the public deficit. The opportunity for this tenor of the majority to take stock of his presence and to subtly express some doubts: “But what the hell are they doing with their days?!”
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