Tuesday June 18, Bruno Roger-Petit did not take Emmanuel Macron’s helicopter to the island of Sein, in Finistère, for the 80e anniversary of the Liberation. He remained in Paris, as during the commemoration of the June 18 appeal at Mont-Valérien, in Hauts-de-Seine, a little earlier in the day.
A cycle of ceremonies, however, carefully prepared by the former editorialist and “memory” advisor to the Elysée, well before these surprise legislative elections. “Thirty minutes in a helicopter over the sea, no thanks”soberly sweeps away the person concerned.
The beautiful complicity with the Head of State, displayed on June 10, in Oradour-sur-Glane, in Corrèze, where, eighty years earlier, 99 men were hanged on the orders of the Reich, lived on. Bruno Roger-Petit, one of the few to follow the presidential action since 2017 at the Elysée, who has become very close to Brigitte Macron, has no longer appeared alongside the president since the “ big blower », in the words of a close friend of the Palace, which he received from the Head of State in recent days. “ He was very close to the door, slips another.
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The scene has the taste of déjà vu: the secretary general of the Elysée, Alexis Kohler, has more than once lectured the advisor, who had already taken the initiative, in October 2020, to have lunch with Marion Maréchal on the sly . In the post-dissolution crisis, Bruno Roger-Petit assures that he has not submitted his resignation. And maintains that Emmanuel Macron responds to those who demand his head: ” Never “.
Macron “is going to go Gaullian”
Nevertheless: since Monday June 10, the President of the Republic has been angry with everyone. He criticizes Bruno Roger-Petit for being too talkative about the behind the scenes of his choice, even if witnesses and actors in this sequence give the same version. This decision, taken alone with Alexis Kohler and a few advisors, was poorly understood by his own majority, kept away from the dramatic turn of events, and by public opinion. The president measures it every day on the ground.
What’s more exhilarating than being part of a circle of insiders? What better proof of power? This Sunday, June 9, while the National Rally triumphed in the European elections with 31.5% of the votes, Bruno Roger-Petit was full of excitement. At the Elysée, that evening, an advisor from the first days saw the “push” appear on his phone alerting the French that Emmanuel Macron was going to speak. He senses that he is going to dissolve the National Assembly and rushes into the “BRP” office: “ What is this bullshit ? We need to cut it short right away! » Response from Roger-Petit, serene: “ But no, he’s going to do Gaullian. »
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