The former vice-president of the Senate, close to LR, is the first to occupy this position without being from the presidential camp since the election of Emmanuel Macron in 2017.
Published on 03/01/2025 06:27
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A new configuration. The report of François Bayrou's first Council of Ministers, which takes place on Friday January 3, is entrusted to the new government spokesperson, Sophie Primas. This former mayor, former deputy and former senator from the right is a survivor of the government of Michel Barnier, as former minister of foreign trade and French people abroad. She is also close to LR President of the Senate Gérard Larcher and Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau, but not to François Bayrou.
Like many people on the right, the betrayal of François Bayrou in 2012, when he called to vote for François Hollande and not Nicolas Sarkozy, remains in his throat.
The new government spokesperson is even one of those who rejoiced when, in June 2017, he left the government after a month, caught up in the affair of the MoDem parliamentary assistants.
Sophie Primas herself says that with François Bayrou, they have a little history, so how did she end up in this position? First of all, “because it’s an LR to show a government of unity of forces”explains a close friend of the Yvelines elected official.
She says she assumes her new responsibilities with the newspaper The World : “We are in a period of institutional instability where we have changed prime ministers three times in one year. We will have to find ways of getting through and move this new team forward together”.
Sophie Primas left LR last June because she disagreed with Eric Ciotti's line. According to Public Senate, she got closer to the “New Energy” movement of David Lisnard, the LR mayor of Cannes. She thus becomes the first spokesperson not to come from the presidential camp since the election of Emmanuel Macron in 2017, unlike to his eight predecessors.
What matters now “it’s about moving forward in the same boat”says those around him: do politics for the common good, agree on subject after subject. Sophie Primas spoke with the Prime Minister in Matignon on Thursday, it was the first time they met.
