Emmanuel Macron is meeting with various political forces in the country on Tuesday with a view to appointing a new Prime Minister. According to his entourage, the head of state is testing two “hypotheses”: Bernard Cazeneuve and Xavier Bertrand. When questioned, the latter sidesteps the issue.
He only wants to talk about the Châlons-en-Champagne fair. While his name is persistently circulating for a potential nomination to the post of Prime Minister, Xavier Bertrand, on a trip to the Marne, refused to comment on “political news” on Tuesday, September 3.
“I am a regional president at work,” he said on BFMTV, adding: “Regional president, that suits me very well.”
“You don’t want me to talk to you about the Châlons fair, because then I’ll be inexhaustible,” he continued. The president of the Hauts-de-France region did, however, thank a passerby who called out to him and who “hopes he will be Prime Minister.”
Macron “tests the hypothesis”
Emmanuel Macron is continuing his “consultations” this Tuesday and, according to his entourage, is “testing the hypotheses of Xavier Bertrand and Bernard Cazeneuve” with one main criterion in mind: the “uncensorability” of the future government.
As BFMTV learned, the main executives of the Les Républicains party, Laurent Wauquiez, Gérard Larcher and Bruno Retailleau, are not opposed to the Xavier Bertrand hypothesis but have put forward their conditions: not to touch the pension reform.
