Macron tests Xavier Bertrand, the RN assures that he will censor him immediately

After several weeks of consultations and rumors in all directions on the name of the future prime minister, Emmanuel Macron focused this Tuesday morning on the Xavier Bertrand track. He sounded out the leading figures of the Republicans, Gérard Larcher, president of the Senate, Laurent Wauquiez, leader of the right-wing deputies, and Bruno Retailleau, leader of the senators, according to information from the Parisian confirmed at FigaroLaurent Wauquiez then organized a meeting with the deputies of his group, at the end of the morning. Xavier Bertrand had been received at the Elysée on Monday afternoon, as part of an intense day of consultations.

Emmanuel Macron, however, wishes to submit this track to the leaders of the parties and groups of the National Assembly, to test “the criterion of non-censorability“, as people around him say. So he relaunched a salvo on Tuesday “informal” of consultations, including with the National Rally, the main obstacle on Xavier Bertrand’s path. When the hypothesis resurfaced on Tuesday morning, some on the right appeared skeptical. “Impossible. Marine Le Pen censors him“, was the immediate reaction behind the scenes. On the LR executive side, everyone was trying to assess the impact of such an appointment on the right, also believing that Emmanuel Macron, who had rejected the Castets hypothesis in the name of institutional stability, could not launch himself on the XB track without having guarantees.

For her part, Marine Le Pen, who is electorally established in the Hauts-de-France region that he chairs, is a fierce opponent of Nicolas Sarkozy’s former minister. To the point that if he were appointed to Matignon, the RN deputies would vote “immediately“in favor of a motion of censure”no matter his policy“, warns the Figaro Marine Le Pen’s entourage, “because of the character’s odious behavior towards the RN for years». «This is an insult to the 11 million RN voters.“, they add. Knowing that the alliance of all the votes of the left and the RN in the Assembly would be enough to bring down a government, this is a big pebble in Xavier Bertrand’s shoe.