50 days after the resignation of the Attal government, Emmanuel Macron has still not chosen a Prime Minister, but two hypotheses are on the table: Bernard Cazeneuve or Xavier Bertrand. According to Bruno Retailleau, the president of the Republicans in the Senate, his party will not “oppose” the nomination of the president of the Hauts-de-France region to Matignon.
“We will always be there when it comes to responsibility,” he justified on BFMTV-RMC this Wednesday, September 4.
The message is clear: he “obviously prefers Xavier Bertrand to Bernard Cazeneuve”, former Prime Minister of François Hollande.
“Check censorship”
During a discussion this Tuesday with the head of state, the leaders of the right Gérard Larcher, Laurent Wauquiez and Bruno Retailleau “clarified two important points”.
“We prefer a right-wing prime minister to a left-wing prime minister, provided that he implements a right-wing policy,” says Bruno Retailleau. “What use would a right-wing personality be if it is to be an alibi for a left-wing policy?”
He therefore recalls that they want Xavier Bertrand to have the necessary latitude to apply the “legislative pact” proposed by LR. They also “asked the President of the Republic to check the censurability, that is to say that there is not a motion of censure as soon as he is appointed”.
“He must go around the parliamentary forces,” adds the leader of the Republicans in the Senate, who believes that the head of state is “adding a crisis to a first crisis by procrastinating.” Before adding: “We want a Prime Minister of cohabitation.”
- BFMTV.com
