Emmanuel Moulin succeeds Alexis Kohler on the strategic put up of secretary normal of the Elysée, between continuity on the background and rupture on the shape | EUROtoday

A web page turns behind the thick partitions of the Elysée Palace. Emmanuel Moulin will formally succeed, on Wednesday, April 16, in Alexis Kohler on Wednesday, April 16, as secretary normal of the Presidency of the Republic. The senior official will settle within the austere lair of his predecessor, a big nook workplace adjoining the inexperienced front room, on the primary flooring of the Hotel d’Evreux.

This stable fifties is a acquainted with the place, resembling turbulence that often shake the highest of the state. He was, from 2009 to 2012, within the midst of the Euro disaster, head of the economic system middle underneath Nicolas Sarkozy. “We slept together on the carpet of Brussels”recollects Franck Louvrier, mayor (Les Républicains) of La Baule (Loire-Atlantique), who was then accountable for the communication of the President of the Republic.

If he doesn’t know the intimate historical past of Macronie, Emmanuel Moulin is just not an unknown for Emmanuel Macron, a lot. Director of the cupboard of Bruno Le Maire in Bercy (2017-2020), then director of the Treasury (2020-2024), and, lastly, director of the Gabriel Attal cupboard in Matignon (from January to September 2024), the previous younger Rocardian has lengthy gravied within the political sphere.

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