The best defense is attack. Would Prime Minister Michel Barnier have adopted this adage like Donald Trump? Poker liar or not, Michel Barnier affirmed Friday that he had “no agenda” after his mandate at Matignon and that he was “ready to leave” while the threat of censorship from his deprived government absolute majority is growing.
While the far right could censor sooner than expected, with the left, the government on the budget, Michel Barnier said he was “ready to leave tomorrow morning […] if the conditions are no longer met to change everything.” At Matignon “I am there for a period of time that I do not know” and “I did not roll on the ground to be Prime Minister”, he recalled before the Assises des Départements de France in Angers. “I was not asking and I agreed to serve.”
Affirming that “dealing with the emergency, the extreme emergency and reforming this country” is his only objective, Michel Barnier was ironic about his age. “I don’t have an agenda for afterward. I am 73 years old today. I will have 76 in 2027 (presidential year). I don't need to be reminded of my age” because “I know what is reasonable and what would not be reasonable”, he explained, suggesting that he would not be a candidate for office. Elysium.
A statement which comes after Michel Barnier pleaded on Wednesday, in front of deputies from his coalition, in favor of a common candidate from the right and the center for the presidential election to avoid the “extremes” coming to power.
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