It’s crazy how the dissolution really clarified everything! This second five-year term is definitely like no other. The Attal government had already not lasted long, and now Michel Barnier is overthrown by a motion of censure three months after his appointment. The crisis is never-ending, political life is entering a new era.
Antoine Armand, feet on the ground
The ministers of the Barnier government knew they were in a precarious situation, even if they did not necessarily imagine such a rapid end. Antoine Armand, propelled to Bercy at 33, wanted to avoid projecting himself. The Minister of the Economy therefore decided not to live there, a way like any other to keep his feet on the ground.
Goodbye Lucie Castets, hello Jean-Luc Mélenchon
Within the NFP, Lucie Castets is no longer the alpha and omega for Matignon, neither at the PS, nor among the ecologists who make no secret of it. The Insoumis are still playing with his name – as a guarantee of their unionist goodwill – to take the post of Prime Minister. But the person concerned is tired of being the object of tensions within the NFP. “She does not want to be the pigeon in this ball trap. She is not in the competition between us,” summarizes a left-wing executive. Castets was recently annoyed that the Insoumis were using and abusing her name in the media and even asked them to stop. Was the message heard? To believe so, since LFI no longer believes in Matignon but puts everything at the Élysée. Tuesday, December 4, the day of censorship of the Barnier government, the LFI deputy for Paris Sophia Chikirou assures us as she leaves the National Assembly: “We are targeting the Élysée”. Without Lucie, but with Jean-Luc?
Marine Le Pen and Mathilde Panot, friends like pigs
The scene surprised some present: Wednesday evening, when Yaël Braun-Pivet brought together all the presidents of the groups in the Assembly (only Laurent Wauquiez was not there), Marine Le Pen and Mathilde Panot showed great sense of cooperation, agree in any case to commit together not to table too many amendments during the examination of the “special law”, provided for by the organic law relating to finance laws (LOLF) of 2001. It would make it possible to renew the 2024 budget for the year 2025.
Nicolas Sarkozy, Rachida Dati and Pierre Charon: funny place for a meeting
To brighten up a week tarnished by government censorship and the resignation of Michel Barnier, Emmanuel Macron will decorate, Friday December 6, the vice-president of Publicis, Clément Leonarduzzi, as revealed The World. The former special advisor to the Head of State will share the stage with Frédéric Rose, security advisor at the Elysée before becoming, in March 2024, prefect of Yvelines. The two speeches, written by their friend Jonathan Guémas, writer who became Emmanuel Macron’s communications boss, promise to be moving. As for the exchanges between the guests, they promise to be… invigorating.
For the first time in several years, Nicolas Sarkozy (guest by Clément Leonarduzzi), Rachida Dati (guest by Frédéric Rose), and Pierre Charon (guest by both) will find themselves in the same room, obliged, no doubt, to converse like if betrayals and politics had not happened there. Many torments unite these three characters from the right. The Minister of Culture has always been wary of the ex-senator, a long-time loyal friend of Sarkozy, until the latter chose not to support him during the last 2023 senatorial elections. Charon lost his seat and his confidence in the one he had accompanied in his conquest and exercise of power. After listening to the sweet presidential words about the decorated guests, informed guests will scrutinize the bored or frozen gestures between these funny guests.
Rachida Dati ends up at the museum
This is on the agenda of Rachida Dati, the outgoing Minister of Culture: on Wednesday, December 11, she is due to welcome businessman Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière to the Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac museum for the signing of a agreement. The one who has always supported the institution created by the former head of state since its opening in 2006, to the point of donating 36 African and Oceanian works of art from his collection in 2018, has decided to double his commitment by now financing two temporary exhibitions per year. A generosity praised by the Minister of Culture.
Eric Ciotti more royalist than the queen
The rumor was launched again on Wednesday December 4: Eric Ciotti would have hesitated to dissociate himself from Marine Le Pen when voting to censure the government with La France insoumise. “Nonsense,” says a frontist deputy. Conversely, even: there are several who are amused by the attitude of the former leader of the Republicans since he passed the rubicon. From its excessive enthusiasm following the election of Donald Trump (while the RN itself pressed the brake pedal), to the appeals to the “anarcho-capitalist” Argentine President Javier Milei, we salute the RN for “Ciotti’s release”. “We feel that he has held back for years, he is becoming more royalist than the king,” laughs a Lepénist.
Being right too early among the Greens
Is it being wrong to be right too soon? In the green parliamentary group, a relatively discreet precursor was the first to plead the cause of a “republican front government”. Before Yannick Jadot, who, this week in Le Figarocalled for the constitution of an executive including Macronist ministers. Before Cécile Duflot, who this Thursday in The Worlddefended the creation of a “climate and social coalition”, from the central bloc to environmentalists. And even before the few movements of the EELV leadership on the need for a Republican front in the hemicycle. Jérémie Iordanoff, deputy for Isère recently elected vice-president of the Assembly (and possible contender to succeed Marine Tondelier), had a few words to say about it to his parliamentary colleagues, in a group meeting. An angel had passed by, and the person concerned felt isolated. Even, it is said, he retracted his interview pleading in this direction in a major media…
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