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VSis uncommon sufficient to be underlined. In someday, final Friday, authorities spokesperson Prisca Thévenot misplaced three members of her cupboard. His chief of employees, William Elman, his particular advisor and his chief of employees tendered their resignations. These departures had been along with that of his pen, Alexis Bétemps, a number of days earlier – he had resigned simply earlier than the publication of a Mediapart investigation reporting his “attraction” to the concepts of the far-right essayist Alain Soral.
“It’s eye-opening. No one wants to be linked in any way to Prisca’s bullshit…” squeaks a Renaissance MP. Since her appointment, pushed by Gabriel Attal over the last reshuffle, in January, the minister accountable for Democratic Renewal has multiplied the hiccups and approximations, recurrently putting the manager and the bulk in embarrassment.
Latest: the pretend assault foiled. Wednesday April 3, in the course of the regular report of the Council of Ministers on the Élysée, Prisca Thévenot welcomed the mobilization of the police in the course of the Easter weekend, including: “Thanks to this mobilization, we have was able to stop an attempt to take action. Because yes, there are attempts to take action, and thanks to the mobilization of these men and women on a daily basis, we can avoid tragedies. This action was avoided last weekend. »
The journalists present asked for details about this “attempt to take action” and all of the Beauvau loops, flooded with messages, overheated. Even earlier than the top of the report, these round him had been fast to declare to AFP that “no attack was foiled this weekend”…
The authorities spokesperson should backpedal stay, contemplating that she had “certainly not been clear”. Then, in the course of the day, these near her will convey out the oars, insisting that she was in actual fact referring to the arrest of an Egyptian at the start of March… Without convincing. A couple of days earlier than this blunder, Prisca Thévenot had introduced that Emmanuel Macron would obtain the farmers “before the end of the week”, whereas the Head of State had simply mentioned the alternative within the Council of Ministers.
“General cacophony”
“To speak out about a terrorist attack when it is not verified and without taking the necessary precautions, it does not exist,” fumes a member of the federal government, who regrets, like different ministers, that Attal , to whom Thévenot is shut – they’re elected from the identical division, Hauts-de-Seine –, selected to nominate her to this place of excessive accountability.
The former Secretary of State for Youth was in competitors with MP Maud Bregeon, who coveted the spokesperson and will rely on the assist of a part of the bulk. “Attal chose Thévenot as spokesperson because he did not want a personality who could shiner (shine). He wanted a loyal person who would allow him to do his own communication,” a minister believes.
“In his defense, the job of spokesperson was already difficult before; it is now impossible, given the permanent disorder that reigns within the executive, points out a historic Macronist. It's a general cacophony! Everyone contradicts themselves, all the time. She masters nothing because nothing can be mastered. How do you want to maintain a clear position when the president and the prime minister say everything and its opposite in the same day? ! I think she's doing her best. The best spokesperson in the world cannot turn lead into gold. »
“She is incisive and she bothers the opposition, so it was the right choice,” defends Nadia Hai, vice-president of the Renaissance group within the National Assembly. “The job of spokesperson is difficult. But it must be said that it is not good. There is no management of the government's overall communication,” says a supply inside the govt.
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