2024-01-11 12:15:09
Emmanuel Moulin, in Paris, July 14, 2023. LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP
Extroverted, jovial, but sanguine if upset; hard worker, pro-business economic expert, very close to Alexis Kohler, secretary general of the Elysée; friend of Bruno Le Maire, Minister of the Economy until further notice; adept at the influence of the shadows rather than an overexposed exercise of power; hardly close to Gabriel Attal… Here are some character traits of Emmanuel Moulin, 55, appointed director of the Prime Minister’s office on Wednesday January 10.
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No notable close ties with its new boss, Gabriel Attal therefore. Even if Matignon specifies in a press release that he “has a perfect knowledge of the functioning of the State which the Prime Minister was able to observe when he worked with him as Minister of Public Accounts”. Emmanuel Moulin has been, since 2020, Director General of the Treasury, a strategic position in senior administration. “My appointment was made naturally, in agreement with the president and the prime minister who wanted it to be me,” he explains to Monde.
In reality, Gabriel Attal was unable to deviate from the tacit rule that Emmanuel Macron has applied since the departure of Edouard Philippe in July 2020: the Elysée has control over the choice of the director of Matignon’s cabinet. Nicolas Revel for Jean Castex; Aurélien Rousseau, then Jean-Denis Combrexelle for Elisabeth Borne. An imprimatur that is anything but trivial: the director of Matignon’s cabinet, Alexis Kohler’s counterpart at the Elysée, is reputed to have more power than any minister.
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Tolerance granted: Emmanuel Moulin will form a pair with Fanny Anor, who was the director of Gabriel Attal’s cabinet for education. But there are only four men attending the successive meals at the Elysée, since Tuesday January 9, to constitute the future government, MM. Macron, Attal, Kohler and Moulin, which indicates: “I don’t have a say. I mostly answer the questions people ask me. »
“Rocardian opinions”
“It is rare for a director of the Treasury, the summit at Bercy, to become director of Matignon’s cabinet, analyzes Jean-Pierre Jouyet, former secretary general of the Elysée. Having someone with such experience in the economic, financial and European fields in this position is important, because relations between Matignon and Bercy must be fluid when the economic stakes are high. » But it is above all the proximity of Emmanuel Moulin with the powerful Alexis Kohler which could guarantee an effective understanding between Elysée and Matignon…
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