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.
Breton believes in it
Thierry Breton is convinced that he can do well after the European elections and even believes, against all odds, in his chances of becoming president of the Brussels Commission. “Emmanuel Macron broke the codes in 2019, why wouldn’t he do it again?” he stressed to a European Parliament official.
A matter of ego
Can Mario Draghi emerge at the last minute and establish himself as Von der Leyen’s successor, if she is defeated in the vote in the European Parliament? The hypothesis is valid but is it realistic? It was Guy Verhofstadt, the former Belgian Prime Minister, who said: “Draghi will never happen, he is too strong for European heads of state to accept.” Would Emmanuel Macron not share much?
Dati at work
The government fears that part of the Renaissance group will make its difference (and its divergences) heard during the examination of the proposed law on public broadcasting. “Rachida Dati is counting a lot on LR for the text to pass, which is why the rapporteur will be Jean-Jacques Gaultier, but the difficulties can come from us,” confides a minister. The text must be examined on June 24 in the Assembly, but the delay in voting on the end-of-life bill makes the timetable uncertain. The Minister of Culture is pushing to maintain the calendar whatever happens.
“Colonialist Left”: Olivier Faure reframes Rima Hassan
The new muse of LFI never stops denouncing the “colonialist left” of Olivier Faure’s PS. For once, the phlegmatic first secretary’s blood boiled over the words of the Franco-Palestinian jurist. “Does she even know where I come from?” asks Faure, visibly annoyed by the comments of Manon Aubry’s co-listener. Faure, son of a Vietnamese mother, whose grandfather joined the Viet Minh government after the fall of Dien Bien Phu. In short, the child of a family of refugees, the grandson of colonized people too. And a comrade of Faure thundered: “Rima Hassan should learn to be silent. It would do her a lot of good and prevent her from hurting people. Decency in politics matters.”
Anne Hidalgo: the desire for criminal justice
While an investigative book on the hidden and dark side of the Olympic Games appears (The hidden face of the Olympic Games, Lattès), the mayor of Paris is delighted with the “major transformations” for her city. “We delivered,” she says. And there’s no question of stopping there. The councilor has been fighting for several months so that the Olympic lane reserved for athletes on the ring road becomes, after the Games, a lane dedicated to carpooling. In a letter addressed to Gérald Darmanin on May 30, the mayor pleads “not to abandon to their fate the 550,000 people” living in the immediate vicinity of the ring road. “This is a joint decision [avec l’Etat, NDLR] but if I don’t have their agreement, then I attack, warns Hidalgo. We will go to the end, I will go to court, I have chosen to be on the right side of history.”
LR too right for a government agreement?
A simple visual, and everything is shaken up. The tweet posted by Les Républicains (LR) on Algeria acts like a slow poison in Parliament. In this message, LR invites Algeria to take back its “illegals” and “delinquents”, while Algiers has transmitted to Paris a list of goods to be returned by France. Right-wing leaders, like Xavier Bertrand, denounced this tweet. A Renaissance executive, although from the right, judges that it is an obstacle to any rapprochement between the majority and LR: “At what point do we make an alliance with these people? This disqualifies the idea of a government agreement with them. “
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