Since Sunday night and the triumph of Bruno Retilleau, now president of the LR, the thermometer has increased a few degrees between Emmanuel Macron and the right. 23 months from the next presidential elections, the Head of State does not intend to be walking standing.
“I understand the euphoria of some, but it is necessary to calm things and not do the situation. The president is there until April 2027, let’s not forget,” urge the president of the Macronist senators François Patriat.
An air of triumph that shocks
On paper, the victory of the Interior Minister seems to be good news for the government. The sixty and year has made its entire campaign in its participation in the ministerial team to demonstrate that “the right is useful for the French.” What gives a smile to the presidential camp that, without LR, can say goodbye to the relative stability of the government in recent months.
But the triumphalism of Bruno Retailleau’s entourage disgusted Macronie. Just 36 hours after the result of the right race of the right, Sophie Primas set foot on the plate. The government spokeswoman, the intimate of her colleague with which she spent almost 10 years in the Senate, explains in Europe 1-CNews that “macronism will probably find an end in the coming months.”
The words bother in the ranks of the deputies of the Renaissance, who publicly make it known. Obviously anxious to avoid the discontent of his allies in a political context that remains uncertain, Redes de François Bayrou.
“Frankly, it is not a method to criticize the president who appointed you and the prime minister who is your ally. We are at the recreation courtyard level,” annoyed a deputy of the Renaissance.
The tension still increases from a notch when, the same morning, Bruno Retailleau defends before the press at the end of his first strategic advice, a report on the Muslim brothers. This work was commissioned by the president himself in April 2024 and would be presented the next day at the Defense Council.
“Communication on the security of the French”
The head of state quickly judges himself short -circuit and lets him know. “The atmosphere was heavy, heavy,” reports a participant in this Defense Council, who says Emmanuel Macron “was not happy” of the leaks in the report.
Worse: the proposals made in particular by Bruno Retailleau to fight against the “low noise” of this Islamist movement are considered “not sufficiently prepared” by the head of state. Therefore, order is granted to “apartment in new proposals.”
However, it is not enough to cool the Interior Minister. In the process, the tenant of the Beauvau place announces to the senators “a better state organization” in “material material”.
“We all want serious solutions, starting with the president. We did not understand anything that the Interior Minister wants to do. We are not going to communicate on the safety of the French. This is serious what is happening,” says Renaissance deputy Guilaume Gouffier-Valent.
“We announce it”
“Macron has Cheffé. Normally, there, François Bayrou should have trimmed his minister,” he said so close to Elisabeth Borne. But the centrist, who has already cut his Interior Minister in the veil in sport, does not want to go to the niche this time.
“We are not going to recover it every time you do something like that because we have not finished. We announce it every time and allow it to say ‘Look at me, it prevents me from doing what I want for the French’,” a Renaissance deputy sighs.
On the side of the entourage of Bruno Retilleau, we say “surprised” about the situation, ensuring that the minister “shares the president’s will to continue the fight” against Islamism.
Always weak forces in the assembly
Is the Interior Minister testing the new freedom offered by his victory to the LR? “Its 75% score gives an additional weight to the Council of Ministers, it is obvious,” said former defender Lr Pierre-Henri Dumont.
Enough to allow you to find a new political space for many of its proposals, for the time of the recession in the Assembly. Among these, we find the end of legal assistance missions for associations in administrative detention centers or the extension of the duration of retention for the “most dangerous” indisputable “up to 547 days.
The situation in the assembly has not changed. LR deputies remain only 47, less than 10% of the workforce.
“Bruno Retailleau won, but in the end, we still do not vote texts that are the same as Marine Le Pen,” summarizes a Renaissance deputy.
“If the common base is thrown farts, it loses everything”
On the side of the relatives of François Bayrou, we are currently making the round. “His interest is to remain in the government to have results to present the French. If he makes a common foundation fart, he loses everything,” he judges an attached modem.
Have. Bruno Retailleau has never ceased in recent days for his resignation to be brilliant. “If one day, our convictions were no longer respected, as well as the idea that we have fundamental interests of the nation, we would leave the government,” said Bruno Retilleau, for example, Wednesday night.
“We do not intend to remain forever,” still contrasts to a LR deputy to summarize the comments made by the minister before his troops on Tuesday at the Assembly.
With a question: would the Interior Minister go alone or with the other right -wing ministers? If LR as a whole leaves the government, the future of François Bayrou would only last a thread with the very likely need to find a successor.
“Then it would exert pressure on Emmanuel Macron very very strong,” translates a ministerial collaborator. “I don’t think it’s upset to return to the heart of the game,” a macronist senator smiles in advance.
Source: BFM TV
