The meeting was given in front of the bakery on rue François-Miron, in the heart of the Marais, in Paris. A stone’s throw from the Saint-Paul carousel, deserted on this gray morning of Tuesday, December 20, the trio settled in the small Marie-Antoinette tea room. In the shop that looks like a candy box, in the middle of marshmallow blue facades, Marlène Schiappa, Secretary of State for the Social and Solidarity Economy, Olivia Grégoire, Minister of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, and Clément Beaune, in charge of transport, show accomplices, seated in front of a cascade of pink raspberry macaroons.
Olivia Grégoire discusses the electricity bill with the baker. Clément Beaune plays the regulars in his “circo”, the 7e of the capital, which he snatched during the June legislative elections against a candidate from the New People’s Ecological and Social Union. But Marlène Schiappa, who has not undone her red coat, is getting impatient.
The former Secretary of State for Equality between Women and Men finishes her green tea before daring a « Mme the minister ? We have to go “, teasing its neighbor party in a surge on the loans guaranteed by the State. The Parisian tour to survey traders worried about soaring prices and show ministers in solidarity is not over. You still have to go through a 100% made in France boutique, a short circuit grocery store and a kosher butcher where only Clément Beaune will be tempted by the glass of vodka handed to him.
It is almost 11 a.m. when the three members of the government on the loose part like old friends. “The truth is, we get along really well. We all three have love for Paris”assures Olivia Grégoire.
united by “love” of the capital, the trio is also ambitious. In 2026, municipal elections will be held in Paris. All of them, to which we can add the Minister of Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal, dream more or less openly of dislodging the mayor of the capital, Anne Hidalgo. All but one: Marlène Schiappa, who, despite an interview devoted to Paris given to the Figaro, November 13, firmly denies running for the competition.
Carnivorous reputation
In this interview, the forties torpedoed the management of the socialist city council, claiming to want to be ” stakeholder of the campaign in 2026 and going so far as to reach out to Rachida Dati, figure of the Les Républicains party.
But she will not be a candidate, she claims. “I said a hundred times and years before that it was not my ambition”, has she tweeted in an annoyed tone, on November 14. An agreement with Rachida Dati? “Eighth Degree”laughs today the interested party, who however admits having met on the sly the mayor of 7e borough for an hour and a half last week, as revealed The Parisian dated December 20. And if, on this occasion, the two women have “exchanged in Paris”they also spoke “of sexism and comments about their private life or their hairstyles”, works for the Secretary of State.
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