Strong man of the first five -year term, Bruno Le Maire is renewed as Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty in the government of Elisabeth Borne.
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Bruno Le Maire had announced it in a statement for more than ten days before the resignation of the government of Jean Castex: “I have always told the voters that I will not do more than three terms: I hold back.” The Minister of the Economy, Finance and Relaunch thus renounced a new candidacy for the legislative elections in Eure, but in no way to its political ambition: Friday, May 20, the former member of the Union for a popular movement ( UMP) was appointed by the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, and the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, at the head of the Ministry of the Economy, Finance, Industrial and Digital Sovereignty.
Tuesday, May 17, this minister of weight of Macron since 2017 said he was “serene” as to the composition of the new government, during a business visit to Tourcoing (North). “Knowing Elisabeth Borne well, I am happy for my country that the President of the Republic chose her as Prime Minister (…). It is a woman who has provided her ability to carry out difficult reforms, who has provides proof of his courage, “he added.
a writer in Bercy
After five full years spent in Bercy, a longevity of which the interested party has often been bored, the Mayor obtained the renewed confidence of Mr. Macron, despite the distance that the President of the Republic long maintained. With this defector from the right. Enarque, associate of letters, he was a French professor in “sensitive zone” in Bron, in the Lyon suburbs. He noted himself for having written twelve novels behind the scenes of power and political essays (including four during the five -year period). He even inspires a character in annihilation, the latest book by Michel Houellebecq.
Collaborator of Hubert Védrine as soon as he left ENA in 1998, as a secretary of foreign affairs, Bruno Le Maire devoted the majority of his career to politics. He was notably within the cabinet of Dominique de Villepin as an “strategic affairs and defense” advisor in 2003 when France refuses to wage war in Iraq, alongside the United States. He follows Dominique de Villepin during all his appointments, from 2002 to 2007, from the Quai d’Orsay to Matignon as director of the cabinet, before launching for the first time by universal suffrage.
A right -wing man anchored in Normandy
Originally from Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine), it is in the 1 re district of the Eure that he is invested by the UMP. Elected, he signed until 2009, the year in which he joined the government of François Fillon as Secretary of State for European Affairs. In 2010, he presented himself as the head of the list to the regional in Haute-Normandie under the banner of the UMP and lost in the second round against the list of the Socialist Party led by Alain Le Vern.
In June 2009, he was appointed Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries until the end of Nicolas Sarkozy’s mandate in 2012. In parallel, he became a framework of the UMP to to become general delegate in charge of the project from 2011 to 2013. He tried in 2012 to take the head of the party but failed to bring together the necessary sponsorships. It appeared in the primary of the right and the center in November 2016 and only harvested 2.38 % of the vote. He then called to vote for François Fillon against Alain Juppé, before abandoning him at the time of his legal troubles in March 2017. He joined a few months later Emmanuel Macron. A choice that he has not had to regret so far.