While the bosses are worried about the outcome of the next presidential election, Gabriel Attal alienates the women of his party and the shadow of Jean Castex hangs over the pre-campaign.
2027 presidential election: the bosses want to weigh in
After Édouard Philippe and perhaps before Sébastien Lecornu or Jean Castex, Gabriel Attal is preparing to enter the campaign. He’s releasing a book next Thursday called As a free man whose good articles will be in Le Point tomorrow. Then he will begin a book signing tour which will take him to Rodez, Bordeaux and Annecy. Not enough to delight his opponents within Renaissance: “he is going to be invested by the party and so what? He will then turn around and see Philippe, Darmanin, Borne, Bergé who will tell him: we are not following you,” explained Wednesday to La Dépêche a pillar of Renaissance who defends the idea of a primary. Our elected official adds: “In any case, from July 7, when we know who Marine Le Pen or Jordan Bardella will be the RN candidate, the pressure will become very strong so that we only have one candidate.” The same pillar understands that the economic world is already considering initiatives to encourage candidates from the right and the center to unite in order to avoid a second round RN/LFI. And to tell us: “The bosses tell us: don’t leave us between Mélenchon and Le Pen”.
Debates on the 2027 budget will begin
Did you love talking about the 2026 budget with friends? Are you missing the terms PLF and PLFSS? So be patient, the debates around the 2027 budget will soon begin! Barely out of the tunnel that took them from September to January, ministers and deputies are preparing to resume consultations on the Finance Bill and the Social Security Finance Bill. “The agenda for the first meetings is being defined,” a minister informed us yesterday Wednesday, who added: “this is a budget that will be important for us, the Macronists, because it will be the last. We will have to ask ourselves what mark we want to leave.” And for this pillar of the government one of the markers of this future budget will be the continuation of the effort in terms of spending. Nothing very optimistic in short.
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Furious women
This week, a photo troubled the Macronist galaxy. It illustrates the interview with Gabriel Attal in Le Point. Supposed to present his book and launch his presidential campaign, the boss of Renaissance appears there surrounded by a team composed… only of men. Some WhatsApp loops therefore got heated: “where are the women”, wrote an elected official while another pillar of the party confided to us: “this photo above all illustrates Attal’s disconnection. Did no one around them think of asking an elected official to appear in the photo? It’s lamentable.” But the same pillar also underlined that Sébastien Lecornu, in his original government, had allocated all sovereign ministries to men. The departure of Bruno Le Maire made it possible to correct the situation with the appointment of Catherine Vautrin. The same finally pointed out the composition of the liaison committee responsible for preparing a joint candidacy from the center for the presidential election: neither Modem, nor Horizons nor Renaissance delegated a woman,” she lamented, regretting that LFI and the RN were much more equal.
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Castex: the PowerPoint man
Jean-Luc Mélenchon is preparing to enter the campaign, Bruno Le Maire is coming out of the woods, Yaël Braun-Pivet assures that no door is closed, Gabriel Attal has already deployed his launching pad, François Hollande is preparing… Little by little the presidential candidates are starting to make themselves known and there are many of them. However, around the tables of the restaurants surrounding the National Assembly, it is the name of a big absentee that constantly comes up: that of Jean Castex. For many, the former Prime Minister, now boss of the SNCF, is the ideal candidate. The Élysée advisors are not the last to bet on him. A minister was annoyed about it on Thursday to La Dépêche: “Castex? It still remains the Mr. PowerPoint of Covid. Nobody believes it.” Not very nice but at least she didn’t bring up his accent.
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