Emmanuel Macron doubts. He “chew”As he himself says, the hypotheses at his disposal. The President of the Republic tries one option, pretends to abandon another, returns to square one… On Tuesday 3 September, the day after the start of the school year and almost sixty days after the second round of the legislative elections, the head of state has still not chosen the name of the future prime minister, assuming that he is leaving the country in the hands of a government that had resigned on 16 July.
Matignon’s candidates pass the test one by one “the funnel”As they say in an inelegant way at the Elysée. And if, for a few hours, Thierry Beaudet, president of the Economic and Social Council (EESC), could believe in his rise to the Rue de Varenne, the man, close to the reformist CFDT union, corresponding to a so-called “Technical Profile”, was no longer summoned to the palace on Tuesday evening. “As soon as his name was brandished, it was torn apart by the left and the right”observes Macronist Senator François Patriat. Conclusion: “The only solution [pour Matignon] is political »someone close to the head of state now claims.
According to the Elysée, the final will be between Xavier Bertrand, president of Hauts-de-France, a member of the Republicans (LR) and Bernard Cazeneuve, a former member of the Socialist Party (PS) and former Prime Minister under François Hollande. The two were received by Emmanuel Macron on Monday, during a day of intense consultations during which the President of the Republic, as in difficult times, met his predecessors on the left, François Hollande, and on the right, Nicolas Sarkozy. But nothing has been decided.
On Tuesday, the head of state continued his behind-the-scenes interviews by telephone, surveying right-wing parliamentarians: LR senator Bruno Retailleau, the head of the right-wing Republican deputies, Laurent Wauquiez, the president of the LR Senate, Gérard Larcher, then from the left, Boris Vallaud, leader of the PS deputies, and Olivier Faure, secretary general of the PS. Before concluding the day with a phone call rejected by the “rebels” Manuel Bompard and Mathilde Panot, another accepted by the ecologists Marine Tondelier and Cyrielle Chatelain. To finish with a final exchange with the head of the far-right deputies, Marine Le Pen.
“The president prefers stability over speed”
Recalling his role as guarantor of the institutions, Emmanuel Macron wants to know, through his discussions, whether the future Prime Minister would be overthrown, after his appointment, by a motion of censure adopted by a majority of the 577 deputies. “The president prefers stability over speed”The current Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, argues that the slowness of the presidential decision is justified. “The king is having fun”criticizes political scientist Vincent Martigny, describing Emmanuel Macron as “master of broken clocks”.
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