It’s crazy how the dissolution really clarified everything! This second five-year term is definitely like no other. The Attal government has already fallen, the European elections have barely ended when the president decides to call legislative elections. With the result that we know… And some sixty days later, here is Michel Barnier in Matignon. For how long?
Will Olivier Faure be a candidate for succession to the PS?
This is the 1,000 euro question that more than one is asking in the Socialist Party these days – including around Olivier Faure – and while the congress must be held before next summer. Criticized even in his own camp (and blithely by his opponents, including François Hollande), the current first secretary may well not run again at the head of the PS. In any case, it is a scenario that the socialist oils are considering very seriously. A solution “for the better”, they say. “Everywhere in the federations, no one wants to relive and repeat the war of the last Congress in Marseille,” explains a major pink elected official, more Faurist than Dutch. At the time, cheating and three-cushion billiards had caused a historic crisis against a backdrop of disagreement over the strategy of union with Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
“Redoing such a congress before the municipal elections would be hara-kiri,” continues our elected PS, who fears a congress of “self-destruction” in a duel between the Faure clan and the friends of François Hollande. So, in the PS, we hope for a third way, called “reconciliation”, without these two confronting each other until death ensues. Translation: a withdrawal of Olivier Faure or the candidate affiliated with the former President of the Republic. A name is circulating more and more for this third way: that of Boris Vallaud, the leader of the socialist deputies, supported by several leaders of the PS, all colors combined: pro-Faure and anti, Dutch or even supporters of Carole Delga, the influential president of Occitanie. Pax socialista?
Jack Lang’s advice to Gabriel Attal
During an evening at the Arab World Institute, former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal met the warm host, Jack Lang. Admiring the journey of his young interlocutor, the former Minister of Culture nevertheless wanted to warn him against the sin of pride consisting of thinking that you can advance in politics by criticizing those who promoted you. “Be great lord!” advised the delicate elder. “Yes, you are right,” replied Gabriel Attal, not annoyingly.
Marine Le Pen dresses Laurent Wauquiez for winter
Ask Marine Le Pen what she thinks of Laurent Wauquiez. The deputy for Haute-Loire recently remembered his good memories, announcing the revaluation of retirement pensions. “A considerable scam,” assures the leader of the National Rally in private. Before adding: “Laurent Wauquiez is not known to be the most loyal in the Paris market.” What if he becomes an opponent for 2027? “Laurent Wauquiez will perhaps be an opponent, but will he be a serious opponent? I don’t think so…” At the end of November, here is Laurent Wauquiez already dressed for winter.
Michel Barnier and the pleasant surprise Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet
The Prime Minister, who often says he is proud of his government team – an overall judgment which does not prevent a more severe view of some – is full of praise for Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet. He particularly appreciated the dialogue that the Minister of Labor was able to lead on the reform of unemployment insurance.
The RN continues the silent purge
In the RN, the hunt for “bad apples”, according to the established expression, continues discreetly. The Conflicts Commission, the party body responsible for distributing disciplinary sanctions, has, according to one of its members, already purged around sixty profiles deemed “problematic”, excluded from the federations in the territories. Objective: to avoid, in the event of early elections, reproducing the case of the 2024 legislative elections, where dozens of frontist candidates were singled out for racist, anti-Semitic or conspiratorial comments.
Ian Brossat, the communist “counterfire”
If Anne Hidalgo decided not to run again, communist senator Ian Brossat said he was “available” and “capable” of running for mayor of Paris in 2026… An ambition that the former deputy for housing and advisor to the capital has since 2008 began to express in private. The timing chosen by the communist leader questions some, while Emmanuel Grégoire (PS) – the former henchman of the councilor who fell from grace in favor of the socialist deputy Lamia El Aaraje, then recently the pink senator Rémi Féraud – has just declared his candidacy, without waiting for the final decision from the mayor. “Anne Hidalgo has the communists in the hand thanks to the first round PS-PCF agreements signed since 2014, analyzes a socialist lieutenant. She balances Brossat to counter Grégoire,” he continues.
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