After a visit to Poland, Emmanuel Macron is expected in Paris this Thursday, December 11 in the early evening to appoint a Prime Minister who will have to seek an agreement to survive longer than the ephemeral Michel Barnier and have a budget adopted, in a political landscape fracture.
His name circulates insistently for Matignon. Will Roland Lescure be appointed Prime Minister by Emmanuel Macron? According to Le Figarothe former Minister of Industry was received on Wednesday by the Head of State.
Former member of the PS, he is one of the pillars of Emmanuel Macron's movement and today pleads for a “coalition of the reasonable”. A Macronist MP since 2017, he was Minister Delegate in charge of Industry and Energy in the Borne then Attal governments.
Opponent of the immigration law
If Roland Lescure, whose father was a communist, claims to have good relations with the former LFI executive François Ruffin, he is far from unanimous on the right.
Thursday afternoon, several RN deputies, including executives Sébastien Chenu and Jean-Philippe Tanguy, successively marked on X their hostility to his appointment “Roland Lescure? Motion of censure“, even wrote the spokesperson for the lepéniste group Laure Lavalette, before deleting her message.
The hypothesis Roland Lescure – who was notably opposed to the immigration law – would also face a revolt from the Macronist right wing and the LR.
Behind the scenes, they would rather show their support for François Bayrou, also considered one of the favorites for Matignon. “If the president appoints Lescure, it’s a break”says a senior MoDem officer, cited by Le Figaro.
While some also fear that the Les Républicains party, after having participated in the Barnier adventure, will shy away from a government more marked to the left, the right wing of the Macronists leans more towards the irremovable Minister of the Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu, very close of the president, or his colleague Catherine Vautrin.
While Emmanuel Macron has left Poland and should be back in Paris at the end of the day, the appointment of the new Prime Minister could take place in the coming hours.
