By Victor Mérat
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Updated yesterday at 08:42
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Jean-Philippe Tanguy on Thursday described the former European Commissioner, whose name is circulating at Matignon, as a “fossil to whom we are trying to give new life”.
Michel Barnier at Matignon? While the name of the Republican, former European Commissioner, is among the hypotheses raised for the post of Prime Minister, the National Rally MP Jean-Philippe Tanguy, with words of rare violence, swept the subject aside.
“We would censor anyone who would further ruin France. So that’s a lot of people, especially when we’re constantly playing Jurassic Park by going looking for fossils that we’re trying to bring back to life. So Mr. Barnier is not only a fossil, but fossilized by political life. Everything he’s been able to do is a failure, even at the European level.“, he lashed out on France Inter, this Thursday, September 5.
Nuisance power
Before adding, in rhetoric similar to the blows below the belt that Donald Trump delivers to his opponents: “I know him well (…) He thinks everything and the opposite of everything and especially nothing at all. Michel Barnier is well known throughout Paris as being one of the stupidest politicians of the Fifth Republic, understanding nothing outside of a file.”
These diatribes will surely reach the Élysée Palace. The power of the National Rally to cause harm is indeed significant, since the party has 126 deputies and is allied with sixteen elected officials led by Éric Ciotti. The latter could therefore allow other political groups to censure a government.
No immediate veto
For his part, the deputy and spokesperson for the RN Laurent Jacobelli, even if he is surprised “Let’s get out of mothballs a whole bunch of names that helped lead France into the wall”recalls that the former Brexit negotiator “did not express himself”.
“I don’t read Michel Barnier’s mind”he indicated, implying that, pending a general policy speech, the RN was not, for the moment, placing an immediate veto against Michel Barnier, on the contrary of a Bertrand government.
