It’s crazy how the dissolution has really clarified everything! This second five-year term is definitely like no other. The Attal government has already fallen, the European elections are barely over when the president decides to call legislative elections. With the result that we know… And some sixty days later, here is Michel Barnier at Matignon. For how long?
Macron-Coty, same fight!
The socialists really don’t know what to do with the impeachment procedure initiated by La France Insoumise, voting for it to be debated while announcing that they would vote against it.
Fortunately, the president of the PS group in the Assembly, Boris Vallaud, kept his sense of formula to distance himself from the initiative: “We are putting Macron back at the center of the game when we would like him to be René Coty!”
Dupond-Moretti had prepared his move
“Is Migaud there?”: when he arrives at the start of the Council of State session on September 11, Eric Dupond-Moretti has prepared his move. He is looking for the president of the High Authority for Transparency in Public Life, whose name is circulating for entry into government, for example… into Justice.
The rest was told by the Chained Duck“It seems that you refused to be a minister because you were afraid that France would know the extent of your fortune,” the resigning Minister of Justice told him, having had to make his financial situation public because of the requirements that the HATVP must enforce.
Bruno Le Maire’s regrets
Bruno Le Maire leaves the Ministry of Economy with seven years of experience and some regrets. “I am the ideal culprit but I am the only one to have committed to savings,” he repeated to his close friends during his last days at Bercy. Above all, the resigning minister struggles to understand and digest the little attention he feels he received when he sent the Elysée, on several occasions, notes proposing savings in public spending.
A note on short-term sick leave, another on apprenticeships… and no response from Emmanuel Macron or his services. Which leads Le Maire to conclude that “reducing spending is not just a question of will: there is in the political unconscious the idea that we will be defeated if we propose a reduction in spending”. Obviously, defeat does not make anyone dream.
The lunch that gets people talking
They have known each other well for a long time and their paths are likely to cross again in 2027: Edouard Philippe and Xavier Bertrand had a tête-à-tête lunch on Tuesday. The latter had not spared the former when the man from Le Havre was at Matignon and could have become his distant successor if…
The first is now officially a presidential candidate and has set himself the goal of rebuilding the right and the center on the evening of the legislative elections.
LR and Macronie: cease fire
Any shared accommodation requires common rules. The prospect of governing with the right bristles some Macronists. Others are in favour, but call on their counterparts to guard against any arrogance towards their new partner. “We cannot have a Minister of the Economy who tomorrow criticises the economic record of the last seven years while asking the EPR deputies [NDLR : Ensemble pour la République, ex-Renaissance] to raise your hand when necessary,” notes a right-wing MP. Transmitted to Michel Barnier and his political family.
The government according to Sarko
Nicolas Sarkozy has long been a supporter of a coalition bringing together Les Républicains and the central bloc. His wish is about to be granted. The former head of state is taking a close look at the composition of the future government. Should Michel Barnier integrate political bigwigs into the future executive? There is no shortage of such profiles, between Laurent Wauquiez and Gérald Darmanin. Nicolas Sarkozy thinks so, believing that such promotions are a way of silencing them. An ambitious person is more dangerous when free than when muzzled by his ministerial function.
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