Guillaume Kasbarian already designates him as his “counterpart”. With haste, perhaps even enthusiasm, the French Minister of Public Service welcomed with a tweet, on Wednesday, November 13, the announcement of the appointment of Elon Musk at the head of a future ministry of “government efficiency.” The richest man in the world is tasked with Donald Trump, the newly elected American president whose campaign he partly financed, “dismantle the government bureaucracy”.
“Congratulations on taking on this amazing challenge @elonmusk! I look forward to sharing with you best practices to combat excess bureaucracy, reduce paperwork, and rethink public organizations to improve the effectiveness of public officials.”, Guillaume Kasbarian rants about X, in English.
While Europe is scared by the “ totally uninhibited agenda» of Donald Trump, in the words of Emmanuel Macron, the minister’s message without much moderation makes part of the political class shudder. Does the thirty-year-old man embody the risk of “Trumpization of French political life” What does the historian and professor of political science at the University of Nice Vincent Martigny highlight?
“We thought that Trumpism in France was limited to the extreme right. We were wrong. We have G. Kasbarian, the French Elon Musk without electricity »on the same social network he criticizes the first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, while in the Macronist camp the left struggles to hide its shame. “I didn’t understand that we had the same agenda as Elon Musk”jokes former Parisian deputy Clément Beaune.
“In Matignon they didn’t laugh at all”
The statements of Guillaume Kasbarian, capable of poisoning the social climate of the country, were not to Matignon’s liking. At the end of the Council of Ministers, Government spokesperson Maud Bregeon tried to delay the decision. “My colleague Guillaume has been very mobilized for years by the need to simplify and debureaucratize the French administration. “He congratulated his counterpart and that’s it.”he assured.
“In Matignon they did not laugh at this tweet at all”he had observed, privately, a Renaissance elected official. “ Welcoming the appointment of a counterpart whose executive was democratically elected does not constitute membership.” is what the people around Guillaume Kasbarian say.
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