QWho will succeed Gabriel Attal? More than fifty days after the resignation of his Prime Minister, Emmanuel Macron has yet to announce the name of his replacement, a puzzle that the president once again failed to solve on Wednesday, September 4, with the Michel Barnier lead now succeeding, on the right, that of Xavier Bertrand.
Contrary to what was still expected early this afternoon, the Élysée Palace decided not to make an announcement on Wednesday evening, nearly two months after the second round of the legislative elections. “We are moving forward. The president’s criteria remain the ‘non-censorship’ by the Assembly of the future tenant of Matignon ‘and the ability to form coalitions’,” a close friend of the president explained to AFP.
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The inability to avoid being immediately overthrown by a motion of censure had been the reason given for refusing the nomination of the candidate of the New Popular Front (NFP), Lucie Castets. And this criterion could also have overcome the hypotheses Xavier Bertrand and Bernard Cazeneuve, whose names were mentioned on Tuesday evening, September 3 at the Élysée.
Bertrand and Cazeneuve obsolete?
Several members of the presidential camp are talking about an “anti-Bertrand front” that has risen up in Macron’s party against the nomination, given on Wednesday as very likely, of the president of Hauts-de-France, a member of the Les Républicains (LR) party and a supporter of the social right. The National Rally (RN) and the New Popular Front were in fact threatening to […] Read more
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