With Michel Barnier, the break in continuity at Matignon | EUROtoday

Michel Barnier is a person of the fitting. There is little doubt about it after half a century of political dedication for the person who, as a youngster, put up marketing campaign posters for General de Gaulle. The new prime minister assumes his political color. But the chief of the Republicans (LR) who stated he was in favour, in 2021, of a “immigration moratorium”to the “retirement at 65”and to the “minimum sentences”, desires to make room for the left in his authorities.

During an interview on the TF1 “8pm” information on Friday 6 September, the previous European Commissioner, who got here, he recollects, from “social Gaullism”ensures that “everything is open”. It is not going to be “only from a right-wing government”he guarantees.

His workforce will embody members of the presidential camp with “maybe, maybe”ministers who’ve at present resigned. Former LR, akin to Gérald Darmanin (inside), Sébastien Lecornu (armies) or Aurore Bergé (gender equality) say they’re prepared to affix him. But Michel Barnier additionally hopes to draw “left-wing people”. Which ones? Mystery.

Apart from the previous 2007 presidential candidate, Ségolène Royal, whose entourage assures the World ” that a common construction between the right, the centre and a part of the left, open and attentive, would be a good idea”candidates are uncommon. According to the primary secretary of the Socialist Party (PS), Olivier Faure, no socialist shall be within the image of a future authorities promised to a movement of censure filed by the New Popular Front (NFP). “I have never been sectarian”the Savoyard boasts.

“Our country needs strong unions”

At 73, the person who claims to don’t have any ” Career Objective “ breaks taboos to seduce the opposition, saying he is able to “open a debate” on the pension reform which, in 2023, put hundreds of thousands of French individuals on the streets. “Our country needs strong unions,” he continues, to raised show his distinction in type with Emmanuel Macron, a Jupiterian president with little concern for middleman our bodies. “Every citizen is necessary”he insists, contrasting with the unlucky remarks of the top of state in 2017 on “people who are nothing”.

Six years after the abolition of the ISF, the septuagenarian additionally swears that he is not going to rule out taking motion “more tax justice”whereas avoiding going into element and defends “order and morality” going through the “bankers who think they can do whatever they want”. A look to the left, one other to the fitting, Michel Barnier guarantees to deal with the problem of migration and borders which have grow to be, in his eyes, “strainers”, whereas learning the topic of proportional illustration, a requirement of the National Rally (RN). “I have no red lines”he sums up.

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