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Bertrand and Cazeneuve out of date?

Several members of the presidential camp are speaking about an “anti-Bertrand front” that has risen up in Macronie towards the nomination, given on Wednesday as very possible, of the president of Hauts-de-France, a member of the Les Républicains (LR) social gathering and supporter of a social proper. The National Rally (RN) and the New Popular Front had been in actual fact threatening to censor him from the outset. “Bertrand is most likely 100% dead,” notes a ministerial advisor, “because he would never have had a majority on any text.”

Former socialist Prime Minister however not assured to obtain the inexperienced gentle from the PS that he left, Bernard Cazeneuve was, himself, pushed apart by Emmanuel Macron as a result of he needed to stay “firm in his boots” on a left-wing program, with out instantly in search of compromises with the middle, believes a Macronist government. While the Cazeneuve speculation at Matignon divides his social gathering, the top of the Socialist Party (PS), Olivier Faure, has expressed robust reservations about Cazeneuve. It could be “a kind of anomaly” to decide on “the only man of the left who fought against the Popular Front”, he judged on TF1.

Michel Barnier additionally talked about

So, all to begin over? On Wednesday night, the identify of Michel Barnier, 73, who was additionally Jacques Chirac's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Brexit negotiator on behalf of the European Union, was circulating insistently. According to a resigning minister, the Élysée spoke with him through the day, whereas others reward his “less divisive” and “more consensual” profile. “He is very popular with right-wing MPs without being an irritant on the left. If Xavier Bertrand is really stuck, I don't see any other options than his,” she stated. The identify of Michel Barnier, who like Xavier Bertrand had competed within the right-wing major in 2021, had already been circulating for the reason that summer time among the many names listed by the president in entrance of a few of his interlocutors.

The head of state is beneath stress from all sides to select almost three months after the dissolution that he himself provoked on June 9, and two months after the second spherical of the legislative elections that resulted in an Assembly with no majority or viable coalition to this point. “The more time passes, the more catastrophic it is. Anger is growing. People are asking us when we will start working. There is an urgent need to act, otherwise the street will take over,” warned the top of the centrist Liot group, Stéphane Lenormand.

On Saturday, September 7, an illustration is deliberate in Paris towards “Macron's coup” on the name of a number of pupil organizations, joined by La France insoumise (LFI), the Communist Party and the Ecologists.