Michel Barnier at Matignon, or the unusual victory of the correct | EUROtoday

With the appointment of Michel Barnier as Prime Minister on Thursday, September 5, the Les Républicains (LR) get together revisits in its personal approach the phrase of Jesus within the Gospel in line with Saint Matthew: “So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”

Fifth political power on the finish of the final legislative elections, the correct got here first at Matignon, regardless of solely 47 deputies. The left is screaming about democratic theft, the LR appreciates this surprising return to Rue de Varennes. “This is good news for France and for the right, assures the Loire MP Antoine Vermorel-Marques. For us, it is an opportunity to show that we can once again occupy a political space, twelve years after leaving Matignon.”

In 2012, the 31-year-old elected official was barely sufficiently old to vote and had not but met his future political mentor: Michel Barnier. Antoine Vermorel-Marques was one of many first to congratulate him in individual. On the correct, folks have been fast to select up the telephone on Thursday to heap reward on the brand new prime minister or publish an enthusiastic message about X. “He is a man of great quality who has all the assets to succeed in this difficult mission entrusted to him”writes the chief of the Republican Right (DR) deputies, Laurent Wauquiez.

Without courtroom or enemy

The similar remark addressed to Xavier Bertrand – the favorite for Matignon the day earlier than – would have appeared extra compelled, given how a lot the 2 males domesticate a mutual aversion. None of that with a 73-year-old Barnier, a sensible man with no supporters or enemies round him on the correct – and this whatever the adjustments within the get together's identify and acronym (UDR, RPR, UMP and LR). Laurent Wauquiez is all of the extra simply in step with the thought of ​​seeing Michel Barnier occupy Matignon, since he had lastly accepted a attainable nomination of Xavier Bertrand on Tuesday, throughout a phone dialog with the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron.

Also initially reluctant to the Xavier Bertrand choice, Bruno Retailleau, chief of the LR senators, had additionally ended up validating this selection. He even spoke on Tuesday night with the president of Hauts-de-France to look at the “legislative pact” imagined by the parliamentary proper within the wake of the legislative elections. This collection of proposals was supposed to decorate up the “no” opposed upfront to any alliance of the correct with the presidential camp with a constructive perspective.

At the time, Olivier Marleix stunned everybody when this avowed anti-Macronist requested “President Macron to appoint a prime minister from the Republicans”. Among the few different LR elected officers to plead on this course was the senator for Paris, Marie-Claire Carrère-Gée: “Only the LR can now claim Matignon and constitute the pivot of a larger majority”assured the previous marketing campaign director of… Michel Barnier, through the 2021 primaries.

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