Aurore Bergé wants to see the emergence of a “new Prime Minister” such as Bertrand, Barnier or Larcher

2024-08-04 20:21:33

“We need a new prime minister who knows how to write deals. » Aurore Bergé, the outgoing Minister for Education Equality, wants a rapprochement between his camp and that of the Republicans, he said this Sunday in an interview published in Le Figaro.

Aurore Bergé emphasized that Xavier Bertrand, current president of the Hauts-de-France region and former minister, Michel Barnier, former European Commissioner and former minister, and President of the Senate Gérard Larcher, have strong government and parliamentary experience. . Meaning: they can make good Presidents.

The resigned minister, re-elected deputy for Yvelines, rejected the suggestion that Lucie Castets, candidate of the left-wing New Popular Front, who came first in the initial legislative elections, was appointed to Matignon because no one had you can say “all of me. plan, nothing but my plan.”

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At the end of the Olympic Games, Emmanuel Macron may appoint a President who will mark the transition to “coexistence” in order to form a coalition, according to the advice of someone close to the president. Aurore Bergé, starting from the right, supports this decision: “What we need is not a technical government, but a political government, made up of experienced people who are able to write agreements, while representatives and the French respect it. »

Aurore Bergé suggests holding a “social meeting” with social partners to discuss purchasing power. For him, the proposals of the legislative agreement defended by Laurent Wauquiez, leader of the representatives of the Republican right (LDR, ex-Les Républicains), on rehabilitation, public services, the restoration of order, order and safety, “are not compatible . including those of the middle class”. Regarding immigration, it is suggested that the councils receive “provisions” on this topic from the right.

The refoundation of the Renaissance

Aurore Bergé wants this government to go “beyond the right, to the social democrats”, on the condition that the latter end their “unfair alliance with the LFI”.

Yvelines MP also pleaded in favor of “a reformation within the Renaissance group, which cannot survive without a real discussion” with groups related to Horizons and MoDem, and of “putting the RN in the face with contradictions”, without however, expelling him out of the National Assembly. “It is a position that I will defend,” he explained, while the Macronist movement must hold its congress at the end of November.