The former president of the National Assembly, converted by consulting, always appears in the unofficial entourage of the Head of State.
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Emmanuel Macron wears a toast. Then another. Fourteen of his former advisers celebrate their starting pot on the Elysée salons this September 27. “I know what I owe you,” said the President of the Republic to the nearest. Among the guests is the first walking companion: Richard Ferrand, former president of the National Assembly held in the June legislative elections. The head of state pays tribute to him, too. The ex-Elu du Finistère is not there, however, to celebrate its withdrawal.
The next day, he returned to the palace, at the dinner of the leaders of the presidential majority, to give the “the” on the method of pension reform. That evening, the former holder of the perch evokes the first threat of the dissolution which, in his eyes, can discipline the assembly; Emmanuel Macron approves and claims his communicators to make it known. Richard Ferrand already had his napkin circle at the political back -to -school dinner, the 1 er September, and that of Renaissance leaders, at the end of August. His voice remains listened to, like “before”.
Without a mandate, he strolls in Paris from Tuesday to Thursday, from his boy the Opera district where he rereads red and black, before joining a woman and children in her former constituency. Bitter ? Occasionally. Many elected officials of the majority describe him as ruminating his electoral setback in the face of a socialist, unknown, 38 years.
The former Socialist Party (PS) had felt his own defeat coming. “Christophe is cooked, and I am very hot in the buttocks,” he said to the head of state, evoking another faithful, Christophe Castaner, who will be beaten in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. “You are pessimistic,” wanted to reassure the president. But the intuition of the Brestois was the right one: thirty years of swept career. As if the second blade of the razor had broke it, after the failure of the regional in Brittany, in 2021. followed a big void.
At the beginning of October, his wave to the soul dissipates. An actress, crossed by chance at the Interallié circle, challenged her to have her film project at the Elysée. “I will pass the message,” promised the intimate of the head of state, flattered. Proof that the sixty -something still counts. He no longer appears in the organization chart of power but exchanges each week with the head of state who, a rare privilege, brings him an attentive ear. “The one who tells you that Macron listens to you is a show -off,” has always reduced the interested party who refused an official position of Elysian advisor and the “chatter wages”.
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