The job description has just gained an additional line. Emmanuel Macron was in Cergy (Val-d’Oise), Wednesday April 27, for his first trip since his re-election as President of the Republic, Sunday. A way of occupying the media field, after having observed silence for forty-eight hours. The opportunity, also, to specify what he expects from his future Prime Minister, called to replace Jean Castex in the days following the last meeting, Thursday, of the Council of Ministers. Without revealing the name of the lucky winner, which remains a mystery for the time being.
From this popular commune, which placed Jean-Luc Mélenchon well ahead of the first round (47.98%), the tenant of the Elysée has warned: the new head of government will have to be “attached to the social question, the environmental question and the productive question”. On the left, then? Not necessarily. “I believe in going beyond, political color does not say everything”said Mr. Macron. “Jean Castex came from the right. He carried out one of the most social policies of the last decades, because he is also a man of heart and he has social fiber., added the head of state. Thus leaving all the doors open on the name of the successor of the former mayor of Prades (Pyrénées-Orientales).
According to several sources close to the executive, Emmanuel Macron has still not made his choice. Time is running out, however. The scenario favored by the Elysée, in fact, is to announce the name of the new prime minister on Monday, before revealing the composition of the government the next day, then to bring together the new team in the Council of Ministers on Wednesday. The investiture ceremony of the Head of State is expected a few days later – probably on May 8.
Bayrou: “I am a solution”
In the aftermath of a presidential election without enthusiasm and marked by the seal of mistrust towards the public authorities, Emmanuel Macron knows in any case that the next tenant of Matignon will have to embody his desire to stitch together a divided country, where the extreme right weighs 41 .46% of the votes in the second round of the presidential election. “In the poorest neighborhoods, whether in cities or rural areas, we really need to recreate the conditions for real and effective equality of opportunity”he judged in Cergy, Wednesday. ” The only way “according to him, to ward off the « sentiment d’abandon » of their inhabitants.
This requirement pleads in favor of the appointment of a consensual and unifying figure, believe many macronists. That of a personality capable of applying the “new method” desired by the Head of State, based on listening to citizens and consultation with intermediary bodies. A profile of a wise old man who brings back names already mentioned during the previous five-year term, such as that of the President of the National Assembly, Richard Ferrand, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian, or the President of the MoDem, François Bayrou .
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