This second five-year term like no other is far from over, yet 2027 and its cohort of putative candidates are already advancing. Behind the scenes, some are learning to sketch trippers, others are familiarizing themselves with the art of conspiracy, in short everyone is preparing the post-Emmanuel Macron era with rigor and determination. The political service of L’Express offers to help you follow, thanks to a weekly meeting on our websitethe progress of these ambitious people who hope to climb the steps of power quickly and without injury.
The Mayor: emotion, and me, and me…
It pitches around Bruno Le Maire. Would Emmanuel Macron want to get him out of Bercy? “It would only make sense to annoy Edouard Philippe”, notes an adviser, who finds it a bit fair. The Minister of the Economy remarks: “Since 2017, there are only two people who have not moved: the president and me…” What gives all its flavor to the joke of Gérald Darmanin, reported by Release : “Bruno cannot be elected president in 2027, he will have already served two terms.”
Is there a pilot at Matignon?
Matignon would turn in slow motion, or upside down? Between the management of the riots, the reorganization which is announced and a director of cabinet on the departure (Aurélien Rousseau should leave his post this Thursday, July 13, according to Politico), “we are in a false flat, it is complicated to obtain arbitrations at the moment”, concede several members of the government. Hesitation would also be felt between the cabinet of Elisabeth Borne and that of the General Secretariat for Ecological Planning, yet under the authority of the Prime Minister: “Sometimes, on specific questions, when the first says black, the second says white…” confides, shrugging a minister in connection with the theme.
Jean-Claude…Macron
There are those, like Renaissance MP Marie Lebec, who call him “Mac Manu” in their telephone directory, or others simply “M”, to hide Emmanuel Macron’s identity. he came to call them. François Bayrou, for his part, has found a little humorous parade to camouflage his discussions with the President of the Republic in public: if by chance you hear the mayor of Pau slip to one of his neighbors “It’s Jean-Claude who told me”, you can be sure that the confidence came straight from the tenant of the Elysée!
The anti-Copé fatwa
Jean-François Copé is sometimes surprised by the silence of the Elysée towards him, while the mayor of Meaux often calls on the right to work with the president. Explanation from someone close to Emmanuel Macron: “The message has been passed to the palace, Nicolas Sarkozy considers that any favor given to Copé is an insult to his person.” It seems that some do not want to upset the ex… His intervention during the meeting of mayors around the Head of State, on Tuesday July 4, was nevertheless noticed.
Taha Bouhafs (still) has a grudge against LFI
Just absolved by an internal investigation at LFI, following the two sexual assaults which had prompted him to leave the party and withdraw his candidacy for the legislative elections in the Rhône, the journalist and activist Taha Bouhafs does not intend to resume his card in the party of Mélenchon – with whom he still talks almost daily. He will instead resume his journalistic activity within a large national radio station and at Blast, an information site founded by Denis Robert when he was kicked out of the Media, the rebellious web TV.
During the white march for Nahel, the teenager killed by a policeman, Bouhafs had little taste for the hypocrisy of certain rebellious oils who threw themselves into his arms when they met him at the demonstration, or offered to meet him around a glass. The same ones who, at the time of the revelations on the accusations against him, had very quickly turned their backs on him. In politics, friendship is a false friend.