According to several sources, the Head of State would still not have made his choice. The Head of Government must be “attached to the social, environmental and productive question”, warned Mr. Macron on Wednesday.
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The job description has just won an additional line. Emmanuel Macron was in Cergy (Val-d’Oise), Wednesday, April 27, for his first trip since his re-election as President of the Republic on Sunday. A way to occupy the media terrain, after having observed silence for forty-eight hours. The opportunity, too, to specify what he expects from his future Prime Minister, called to replace Jean Castex in the days following the last meeting on Thursday of the Council of Ministers. Without revealing the name of the lucky elected representative, which remains for the time being a mystery.
Since this popular commune, which has placed Jean-Luc Mélenchon widely at the top of the first round (47.98 %), the tenant of the Elysée warned: the new head of government will have to be “attached to the social question , to the environmental question and the productive question “. On the left, then? Not necessarily. “I believe in overtaking, the political color does not say everything,” said Macron. “Jean Castex came from the right. He has led one of the most social policies of the last decades, because he is also a man of heart and he has social fiber,” added the head of state. Thus leaving all the doors open on the name of the successor of the former mayor of Prades (Pyrénées-Orientales).
According to several sources close to the executive, Emmanuel Macron still would not have made his choice. Time is running out, however. The scenario favored by the Elysée, in fact, is to announce the name of the new Prime Minister on Monday, before revealing the next day the composition of the government, then bringing the new team to the Council of Ministers on Wednesday. The Head of State inauguration ceremony is expected a few days later – probably on May 8.
Bayrou: “I am a solution”
In the aftermath of a presidential election without enthusiasm and marked with the seal of distrust of the public authorities, Emmanuel Macron knows in any case that the next tenant of Matignon will have to embody his desire to sew a divided country, where the extreme right weighs 41.46 % of the votes in the second round of the presidential election. “In the poorest districts, whether in cities or rurality, we must really recreate the conditions for real and effective equal opportunities,” he said in Cergy on Wednesday. “The only way”, according to him, to ward off the “feeling of abandonment” of their inhabitants.
This requirement pleads in favor of the appointment of a consensual and unifying figure, believe many macronists. That of a personality capable of applying the “new method” desired by the Head of State, based on listening to citizens and consultation with the intermediate bodies. A profile of old sage who makes names already mentioned during the previous five-year period, like that of the President of the National Assembly, Richard Ferrand, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian, or the president of the Modem, François Bayrou .
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