In an interview with The Sunday TribuneMarine Le Pen regretted “remarks made by certain people” about the new prime minister, without naming the RN MP for the Somme.
The charge almost blocked his path to Matignon. A few hours before Michel Barnier’s appointment, Jean-Philippe Tanguy painted a less than flattering portrait of the future prime minister: “He is well known throughout Paris as one of the stupidest politicians of the Fifth Republic, incapable of understanding anything without a file,” scratched the National Rally MP on Thursday morning, on France Inter.
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The self-proclaimed sovereignist even added another layer on the same channel: “Mr Barnier is not only a fossil, but a fossilized one of political life. Everything he has been able to do is a failure, even at the European level..» The game seemed almost over for Michel Barnier on Wednesday evening, but the sailor’s morning outing brutally rekindled fears at the Elysée of a motion of censure by the RN.
Behind the scenes, Marine Le Pen and her colleagues do not seem to oppose the former European Commissioner’s option, after having ruled out that of Xavier Bertrand. According to The Sunday JournalEmmanuel Macron is said to have directly called the double finalist of the two presidential elections to ensure that his troops would not vote for an immediate censure against the former right-wing minister – an exchange that the person concerned strongly denied on Sunday when she returned to Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais).
“I shouldn’t have expressed myself like that”
The fact remains that Jean-Philippe Tanguy’s harsh words did not really please the leader of the RN deputies. “It is true that there were comments made by some people, which I have not validated at all and which are linked, I think, to the responsibilities that Michel Barnier was able to exercise as European Commissioner.”she acknowledged this Sunday in an interview given to The Sunday Tribunewithout however naming the nationalist elected representative of the Somme.
Since then, Marine Le Pen has corrected her aim by describing the new Prime Minister as“respectful man”without forgetting “that he spent his entire career in a political family that has done nothing but disappoint the French people”Invited this Sunday on BFMTV, Jean-Philippe Tanguy made his mea culpa: “I should not have expressed myself in this way towards another politician. These are not words worthy of a representative.”he apologized.
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