2023-07-20 16:06:59
This time it’s the right one. By appointing Aurore Bergé to the Ministry of Solidarity, Autonomy and Disability, in place of Jean-Christophe Combe, Emmanuel Macron puts an end to a long cycle of disappointments renewed with each reshuffle. The entry into government of this 36-year-old young woman marks the completion of a winding political journey that started early.
It was barely 16 years old that the Yvelinoise entered politics in the wake of the shock of the presence of Jean-Marie Le Pen in the second round of the 2002 presidential election. It will be with the young people of the UMP of which she will fail to take the lead.
His successive allegiances to Nicolas Sarkozy, François Fillon then Alain Juppé give him an unpleasant and persistent image of opportunist that his rallying to Emmanuel Macron in February 2017 does not come to attenuate. The liberal prefers to recall her constant convictions on Europe, feminism and her support, then a minority within the UMP, for marriage for all.
In the Assembly, loyal but independent of the executive
In the legislative elections that followed, she defeated the ultra-conservative candidate Jean-François Poisson in the 10th district of Yvelines. Appointed spokesperson for the LREM group and then for the party in January 2019, the one who worked for a time in communication and public relations, specializes in the Assembly on audiovisual and educational issues.
She gradually makes her own melody heard, asserting an uncompromising line on secularism. For example by proposing an amendment to the separatism law to prohibit the wearing of the veil for young girls. What split up within his own political family of adoption. It doesn’t matter: the daughter of Sylvester Stallone’s French voice loves boxing. In September 2020, she was knocked out by Christophe Castaner to take over from Gilles Le Gendre as chairman of the group.
But gets back into the ring, successfully this time, after being re-elected as an MP in June 2022. The LREM group, which has become Renaissance, certainly goes from 266 to 171 members. But here is a highly strategic function in an assembly without an absolute majority where no text can be adopted without discussions with the other groups.
Elected without the support of the President of the Republic, she assumes a line that wants to be loyal but independent of the executive, as on the file of the fight against squats. Let it be said: Bergé will not be a sheep-bearing president. In June, she announced that she wanted to include abortion in the Constitution, taking her allies from the MoDem and Horizons by surprise, who regularly accused her of going it alone. The project will end up being voted on by the Assembly.
Accused of political instrumentalization by the opposition
The MP met with less success in March when she proposed, with the Quatennens case in mind, a text on the ineligibility of perpetrators of aggravated violence. At the podium, the slugger lets the veneer crack: “Yes, I know exactly what I’m talking about when I talk about domestic violence,” she breathes, tears in her eyes.
The opposition screams at political instrumentalization. An accusation that Aurore Bergé will renew again recently when she tries to discredit a proposal from the independent group Liot by evoking the tragedy of stabbed children in Annecy or by evoking the death of a firefighter to denounce the position of LFI during the urban riots. It is now on the bench of ministers that the 30-year-old will be able to continue to exchange blows with her political opponents.
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