“In retirement, but not retired.” This formulated, declared by rebel leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the summer of 2022 after the legislative and presidential elections, suitable for Michel Barnier. By staying only three months in Matignon, between September and December 2024, the former prime minister (LR) is no longer in the foreground. But he intends to continue weighing and does not forbid anything.
This week, the Savoyard will remember the French, on Wednesday, June 4, at the launch of his book on Wednesday, June 4, what I learned from you “(Calmann-Lévy), who has several chapters related to his experience as head of government. Other politicians will be in the bookstores in the same period: Édouard Philippe, Éric Ciotti, dominant of Villap.
“We all have part of the destination”
Michel Barnier is no exception. The next presidential election? “I am ready to serve my country,” he said on Monday, June 2 in the columns of the point.
The multiple minister, approved in the Balladur, Juppé, Raffarin or Fillon governments, advances cautiously and calls in particular to let things be decant because there are the first municipal elections (…) and the senatorial elections. “
But that does not prevent him from projecting himself: “As far as I’m concerned, we all have a part of the destination,” he said. “We will see what the circumstances that will make me will be.
Regarding the strategy that will be carried out within the central block, in which there is no lack of assumptions, Michel Barnier asks for the same candidacy, wishing to register in the line of his visit to Matignon, where he had to trust the “common base”, gathering the troops of the presidential coalition and LR.
Above the fray
An argument to highlight your profile. Michel Barnier, 73, has another: “It can happen” that the next tenant of the Elysée “is just a mandate, if he is a certain age …”, he says with the point, adding: “more seriously, the recovery of our country will have to be the only obsession of the next president who should not think, too often, of his re -election.”
Understand: at the top of the state, I would not play the next blow. The Brexit negotiator cultivates this image about the fray and seeks to get at the service of the French, promising them a truth speech. A map was already played during his visit to the Head of the Government, when he could not trust an absolute majority in the National Assembly.
Therefore, Michel Barnier says she has no “personal stake” and not “seeks a publication.” In opposition, he denounced the “parties regime”, guilty according to his departure as Matignon, precipitated by the vote of a motion of censure throughout the left and the national demonstration on December 4, 2024.
“The parties do not measure the seriousness of the situation, live in a vacuum, we see it in the National Assembly. The French, they measure it. That is why they stop in the street. They judge that, during the three months when I had the honor of being prime minister, we worked with dignity, truth, respect,” he defends.
At the moment, other correct personalities seem to be one step ahead of him before the presidential elections. Starting with Édouard Philippe, former head of government and candidate declared for Elysium. But also Bruno Retilleau, while his promotion to the Ministry of Interior was confirmed by his great victory against Laurent Wauquiez during the LR congress.
In fifty years of political life, Michel Barnier has seen others. Why not him? The age “that does not avoid anything! I, I have seventy-eight. And then you are great, you are solid, you have the right thing … you have to continue,” said US President Donald Trump reopens the Notre-Dame Cathedral, according to the first extracts of his book, published by Le Point.
Source: BFM TV
