COUNTERPOINT – After Tuesday's meeting at the Élysée, we had to face the facts: the “common base” of the new prime minister will not be broader than that of the outgoing prime minister. It should still not be narrower!
A prime minister, and after? The development as well as the scenario of the soap opera leading to the replacement of Michel Barnier showed that the political crisis caused by the dissolution of June 9 and amplified by the censorship of December 4 could not be resolved by a simple change of tenant at Matignon. After promising a snap nomination, Emmanuel Macron once again relied on his favorite method: a succession of bilateral meetings and a multilateral consultation with all partisan actors. The idea, as always, was to broaden the political base of the future government. This was already the mission entrusted to Élisabeth Borne, then to Gabriel Attal. With the success we have seen.
With the brutal retraction of the central block, it was then that of Michel Barnier. LR joined a “common base”, but it was not enough to last more than three months. As always, we started looking again…
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