It’s crazy how the resolution really cleared everything up! This second five-year term is absolutely like no other. THE last changeover with Gabriel Attal at the helm is already far away European elections is barely over when the president decides to call parliamentary elections. With the result that we know… More than ever, behind the scenes, some learn to avoid stumbling, others become familiar with the art of conspiracy, in short, everyone prepares the post-Emmanuel Macron era with rigor and determination.
Macron-Le Pen: one meeting, two atmospheres
As is often the case with opponents, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen are very curious about each other. If their meeting in the Elysée during the consultations led by the President of the Republic was not the first, it nevertheless marked the two participants. From the head of state’s point of view, this is “their best meeting”, according to a Macronist strategist who still can’t believe the list of qualities listed by the Elysian host. The head of the RN was rated as “serious and calm”.
As for the latter, she confided in private to being a little taken aback by the barrage of questions that Emmanuel Macron bombarded her with. One sentence also surprised her: “I think I have a way,” the president is said to have told her. A sentence that undoubtedly seemed a bit affirming for Marine Le Pen, since in her eyes the political situation is unfavorable for the president. Question of point of view.
Hollande-Faure, the uncompromising thaw
The two men had not spoken for years… Between the first secretary (and former chief of staff of François Hollande) and the ex-president there was a shared hatred. We remember that François Hollande had little taste for the “uncompromising” inventory of the socialist five-year period signed by Olivier Faure, who tried to save the PS furniture as best he could. It’s all in the past. The two men exchanged a lot this summer, mainly via text. “It’s thawed,” confirms the entourage of the former head of state. Before the Olympics and everyone leaving for vacation, the two men shared some strategic visions for the start of the school year, and the elder even offered advice to his former colleague. Will he listen to them?
At the end of August, when the Insoumiers pulled out the platform after the dismissal of Emmanuel Macron without warning anyone – thus angering everyone at the NFP – Hollande took his phone to contact Faure and ask him to step up to the plate. It will be done. “He is in the union, he is in line with our strategy,” someone close to the first secretary of the PS will believe. All’s well that ends well? Impossible is not socialist.
Borne forgets Attal
In July, when he became the leader of the Renaissance group in the National Assembly, Gabriel Attal indicated to Elisabeth Borne that he would not aim for the leadership of the party. Don’t forget! The former prime minister therefore did not consider it necessary to warn her successor in Matignon before declaring her candidacy in The ParisianAugust 21.
Macron and the ten guys
After the left-wing delegation led by Lucie Castets, the leaders of the “central bloc” arrived in scattered order at the Elysée on 23 August. A few minutes before they arrived, they realized something. Gabriel Attal, Edouard Philippe, François Bayrou, Stéphane Séjourné, Marc Fesneau, Laurent Marcangéli, Laurent Hénart, François Patriat, Hervé Marseille, Claude Malhuret… They were only men. You might as well avoid group photos.
These ministers are ready to resign
The number of ministers who want to continue serving the country is not weakening… It must be said that Emmanuel Macron does not necessarily discourage them. The president suggested to his foreign minister, Stéphane Séjourné, that it was not out of the question that he would remain at the dock in the future government.
Eric Ciotti: finally alone!
Emmanuel Macron had never received Eric Ciotti face to face when he was president of the LR. The Nicene had picked up a lot of bitterness, he was still complaining about it a few weeks before the dissolution into a Macronist tenor. Here he is chairman of a small parliamentary group, and as such he had the right to his meeting alone with the head of state on 23 August. Finally!
Marine Le Pen: there without being there
In July, the deputies elected a new office in the National Assembly with a majority for elected representatives from the New People’s Front and no place for the National Rally, which nevertheless constitutes the first group in the half-cycle. A situation condemned by President Yaël Braun-Pivet, as by Emmanuel Macron or François Bayrou. And a false pretense? Yaël Braun-Pivet’s cabinet reiterates one point: any group president (Marine Le Pen is) can attend office meetings if they wish.
Jean-Michel Blanquer: We cannot say no to Macron
This is where he dates the beginning of his “descent into hell”: Jean-Michel Blanquer, then Minister of National Education, refused to be the leader of the list for the regional elections of Ile-de-France in June 2021. “I need for you, we need someone with weight to meet Valérie Pécresse. Blanquer continues in his refusal. No answer, “he flew into a gigantic rage. (…) It appeared from his mood that I was basically ungrateful, that it was unheard of for me to allow myself to refuse his request, that I should soon understand who had made me minister, and that, that had made me, could change me. He tells about the episode The Citadel (Albin Michel), a book detailing his government experience.
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