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?
The RN nourishes dreams of property
Has the 16th arrondissement of Paris already tired of the far-right party? Tenant, for the moment, of its premises located on rue Michel-Ange, the National Rally is in any case considering investing in a new headquarters of its own. Now that finances are in better shape, party officials would like to find some space. The purchase project was therefore put at the top of the pile of files, once all of its debt – which still amounts to 15 million euros – will be repaid.
Immigration: how Retailleau tries to convince Barnier
Bruno Retailleau is determined to defend two pieces of legislation on immigration in Parliament. The first transposes the European pact on migration and asylum. The Minister of the Interior mainly intends to push a Senate bill recycling the provisions censored in January 2024 by the Constitutional Council for procedural reasons. He tries to convince the Prime Minister of the usefulness of two legislative vehicles. With two arguments. The first text is too dense to accommodate other provisions. A single project would also risk “coagulating oppositions”. And to destroy the ambitions of the executive.
When the PS didn’t want Lucie Castets
It was a time when no one really knew her, not even Olivier Faure… At the end of 2023, Raphaël Glucksmann is cooking up his list for the upcoming European elections. A moment of tension between him and the First Secretary. The latter has several socialist names to include in the list, people to reward as well as internal adversaries to include to ease conflicts within the PS. But the leader of Place publique wants to bring with him personalities from civil society, in eligible places, it goes without saying. Glucksmann has two names in mind: Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, a specialist in European energy and climate policy from the Jacques Delors Institute and a certain Lucie Castets. She and he will even have a discussion on the subject and in particular their shared ambitions for European public service. The PS leadership is giving in, will delete its name, preferring its own elected representatives whom it does not wish to lose.
Borne in Attal: “If you get hit by a bus…”
Gabriel Attal’s argument for remaining at the head of the EPR group – he would be the only one able to preserve its perimeter – while controlling the head of the party does not convince Elisabeth Borne. Who told him, with his usual frankness: “If you get hit by a bus, our party disappears?” A cash version of “No one is irreplaceable”…
Barnier-Vautrin: blood ties
What are the differences between Michel Barnier and Gabriel Attal at Matignon? According to the ministers who worked alongside the two heads of government, they are numerous. Their style, their method, their ideas… But the real change is summed up in these terms by Catherine Vautrin, Attal’s Minister of Health and Labor who became Barnier’s Minister of Local Authorities: “I could have been the mother of the previous Prime Minister, then I could be the little sister.” And this maturity of the tenant of Matignon is obviously an asset according to the minister: “He is very experienced, does not deviate, and he is very involved on many subjects.” A surge of fraternity in this political world of bullies.
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