VShe 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 sketch out plot twists, others familiarize themselves 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.
Hard, hard to be from Marseille
The crisis at Olympique de Marseille also has repercussions… in the Assembly. Monday September 25, poor Sacha Houlié, Renaissance president of the Law Commission but above all a passionate supporter of OM, had to endure the taunts of his little comrades in the hemicycle after the 4-0 defeat against PSG on Sunday evening. The jokes of group president Sylvain Maillard, the four ostensibly raised fingers of his colleague Pieyre-Alexandre Anglade: it was too much for Houlié, who was on the verge of… leaving the room.
Towards a reform of the PLM law
This could be an unexpected consequence of the meeting in Saint-Denis around Emmanuel Macron: a reform of the voting method for municipal elections in towns with districts is under study. Most party leaders wanted it. Olivier Faure, the first secretary of the PS (of which Anne Hidalgo is a member) said nothing, so there clearly exists “a way through”, according to an important minister. The current PLM law (voting by district for Paris, Lyon and Marseille) dates from 1982; the idea would be to lead to a direct vote by citizens to appoint the mayor of the city. A bill from the Renaissance group is being drafted and would be presented before the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The next municipal elections will take place in 2026.
Mélenchon edited, Mélenchon internationalized, but Mélenchon ratiboized!
The new book by Jean-Luc Mélenchon (Do better! Towards the Citizen Revolution, Robert Laffont) originally had no less than… 700 pages. However, even when you are the leader of your political family and a three-time candidate in the presidential election, you can do nothing against the scissors of the literary system. “They (editor’s note: the publisher) found that it was really too big,” the author concedes to L’Express. The publishing house has “cut from the fat”, as the expression goes, to produce only some 350 pages, “translated into English, Spanish, German, and Italian”, boasts the same Mélenchon . And the Rebel tells himself that he can always make “two more books” with what has been slashed. It seems that “words make fortune”, said Jules Renard…
A moo box for Dussopt
The LFI deputy for Toulouse Hadrien Clouet, a sociologist by training and considered one of the rebellious thinking heads, ordered two personalized moo boxes pronouncing the famous sentence of Minister Olivier Dussopt, almost voiceless, at the end of the pension reform in the hemicycle: “We didn’t give in!” Between LFI and Dussopt, the love?
The Mayor is not Rocard
When you belong to the majority, should you break with the president and distance yourself from him at all costs if you aspire to succeed him? This is the thesis, often cited by Laurent Wauquiez for example, which recalls that Rocard does not succeed Mitterrand because he was his Prime Minister. Bruno Le Maire, who considers that doing his job well as Minister of the Economy prohibits him from making the slightest deviation, rejects the reasoning. “Rocard does not succeed Mitterrand because he is weak. Because on many subjects, he distinguished himself from him! It is in front of the French that we must distinguish ourselves, not in relation to the president.”
“To your good hearts, ladies and gentlemen”
The RN is resigned: it will not receive a positive response from a French bank for a loan in anticipation of the European elections of June 2024. Two solutions are being considered for the moment: a loan taken out from a European bank, as during the presidential election, or a call for support to activists. This had already been the case for the 2019 European elections: with its “major national loan” Marine Le Pen’s party had managed to raise 4.2 million euros from its supporters.