It is 11:10 a.m. on Thursday, September 12, when Bruno Le Maire takes the microphone in front of hundreds of guests gathered in the large courtyard of Bercy. “My dear friends, I am leaving, he begins. As Michel Sardou would say, I love you, but I’m leaving. » A song about a child’s suicide, a curious musical reference for a farewell speech. The minister certainly did not know the meaning of the words. I fly for the author. Because the rest of Bruno Le Maire’s words are clear: if he is preparing to put politics aside for the moment and hand over the keys to Bercy, which he has held since May 2017, this departure is by no means definitive. “I hope we can maintain the bond we have built over seven years, so I say see you soon.” concludes, unlike his message to the French, published simultaneously in X.
In the near future, Bruno Le Maire, 55, will begin a new life. “It is time for me to breathe a different air than that of politics”he said on Thursday. After twenty-two years of political activity, in a few days he will no longer have any national or local mandate, nor any position in the public service. He resigned in 2012, so as not to impose any effort on the French people, while enjoying comfortable personal security. “This should be the rule for everyone”he stressed in his speech.
Bruno Le Maire, a teacher of literature and enarque, will return to his first vocation: teaching. After receiving proposals from several American and European universities, he opted to teach courses in it “Economic and geopolitical issues” at E4S, a university in Lausanne, Switzerland. “Of course, I will continue to live in France, which is my homeland, my life, my passion”, He clarified, to put an end to any controversy over his tax exile. For ethical reasons, joining a company would be difficult for him in the short term, as he has seen many cases go through at Bercy. As for the royalties from his novels, they are not enough to keep him alive.
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“And then? Then he who lives will see.”, -the future teacher said. “My biggest political battles lie ahead”, had declared, in June, in The point the one who would have dreamed of being President of the Republic or Prime Minister. He remains among the twenty political figures of whom the French have the best opinion, according to the IFOP-Fiducial barometer Paris match and Sud Radio. But what will these fights be like? Where will it lead them, when he broke with Les Républicains and distanced himself from the first Macronist circle, especially after having described “cochineals” The advisors who encouraged the head of state to dissolve the Assembly? Mystery.
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