Michel Barnier places the ending touches to his authorities amid tensions with the presidential camp | EUROtoday

Not but in place, the Barnier authorities is already inflicting tensions inside the presidential coalition. While the general structure of the chief, introduced on Thursday, September 19 by the Prime Minister throughout a gathering with get together leaders at Matignon, is little contested, the names which have been leaked since then, which announce a authorities strongly marked on the proper, brought about a stir on Friday among the many allies of the previous majority.

The presence of Bruno Retailleau, a determine of the conservative proper, a former protégé of Philippe de Villiers, who was reportedly provided the Ministry of the Interior, significantly irritates the Macronists. The president of the Les Républicains (LR) group within the Senate represents “the hardest right”underlines Renaissance MP Ludovic Mendès. “We can work with right-wing people”assures the deputy of Moselle, former member of the Socialist Party, citing as examples the names of Annie Genevard (LR deputy, anticipated to be Minister of Agriculture), Julien Dive (LR deputy near Xavier Bertrand) or Philippe Juvin (LR deputy of Hauts-de-Seine), “but with Retailleau, who speaks of “paper French”, This is not possible. Moreover, it is not with this type of profile that we are going to attract people from the left to the government. “.

In reality, on the left, solely the previous socialist president of the finance committee of the National Assembly, Didier Migaud, president of the High Authority for Transparency in Public Life (HATVP), is claimed to have accepted Michel Barnier's advances.

Laurence Garnier, a “provocation”

Other profile judged “divisive” within the presidential camp, that of LR senator Laurence Garnier, near Bruno Retailleau, who had opposed same-sex marriage or the constitutionalization of abortion. While she was anticipated to take up the household portfolio, her title made the left and a part of the presidential camp leap, who denounced a “provocation”.

Alerted by a number of Macronist executives, Emmanuel Macron, who himself didn’t know the elected consultant from Nantes in keeping with a detailed good friend, in flip drew the Prime Minister's consideration to the “delicate profile” from the chief of the opposition to the socialist mayor Johanna Rolland. The senator ought to be moved to a different submit. A course of contested by the Republican proper. “If we go that way, we too can reject people in their homes,” an LR government will get irritated.

It is on this tense context that the Loire-Atlantique MP Sophie Errante, one of many first socialist MPs to hitch Emmanuel Macron in 2017, introduced on Friday her departure from the Ensemble pour la République (EPR) group. “The appointment of Michel Barnier and the composition of the government mark a clear shift to the right”she regrets in a press launch, and “a profound break with the reasons why I committed to Emmanuel Macron in 2017”. Re-elected on July 7 in a three-way race, the elected official hoped for the formation of a “central coalition around Bernard Cazeneuve”she mentioned to the World. Disappointed, she resumes her “freedom of speech, tone and vote”and can now sit among the many non-registered.

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