In Trump : The Art of the Deal (Ballantine Books, 1987), a bestseller that made him known, the billionaire and future American president outlines his negotiation method. Show your strength, surprise even if it means slamming the door, put your opponent's back against the wall and, above all, “the important thing is less the content of the agreement than having an agreement that bears your name, for which you can then take credit.”
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Has Marine Le Pen read the one she has long supported and whose counterpart she dreams of becoming? In recent weeks, she has applied the “art of the deal” to perfection, gradually pushing Michel Barnier to accept the majority of her requests. But Monday, December 2, at the end of a negotiation demonstrating her ascendancy over the Prime Minister, the leader of the far right put down the pen. And renounced the agreement which would have made her a head of the second government, at the dawn of new texts with challenges: finance bill, law on immigration, possible text on proportional voting…
The desire of its voters was to overthrow the government of Michel Barnier, seen as a continuation of those of Emmanuel Macron. Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella have rallied behind it in recent weeks, believing that they would have too much to lose and that the Prime Minister had not offered them what Ms. Le Pen was eagerly seeking: respect. In their eyes, Mr. Barnier has never respected his promise at the start of the legislature.
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The duo at the head of the National Rally (RN) decided over lunch this Monday, preserving its image as an “anti-system” party and rejecting a double opportunity: that of claiming victories for their electorate, and of strengthening public opinion news that the economic elites have about them. They announced that they would table a motion of censure following the use, Monday, December 2 afternoon, of article 49.3 by the Prime Minister to have the “Secu” budget adopted and that they would add their votes to the left to vote for the one tabled by the New Popular Front.
Winning the senior vote
The “deal” would nevertheless have borne Le Pen's name: Mr. Barnier's latest setbacks, on the increase in the electricity tax and the dereimbursement of medicines, are attributed to him. For the latter, the former European Commissioner wrote on Monday noon, in a press release on Matignon letterhead mentioning his telephone discussion with Marine Le Pen. In doing so, the Savoyard also complied with the formal requirement demanded by the far-right leader. This final outstretched hand granted the request expressed in the columns of La Tribune Sundayof a “discharge on the deindexation of pensions or on the non-reimbursement of medicines”.
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