The appointment on Sunday, October 5 at the Ministry of the Armed Forces of Bruno Le Maire, who was Bercy’s head for seven years, concentrated the criticism of the oppositions against the Sébastien Lecornu government, but also of one of its main supporters, the right party.
The election of the former Minister of the Economy (2017-2024) is the main surprise of a team that mainly has renewal.
After having “completely excluded” to enter the government only fifteen days, Bruno Maire justified his reversal for “the exceptional circumstances that France is happening.” “I come to serve the French. I come to serve our soldiers,” he said on Network X this Sunday night.
According to a source of the negotiations, the general secretary of the Erlysée Emmanuel Moulin contacted him twice on Friday, October 3, then by the Prime Minister on Saturday and by President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday. After reiterating his refusal, he finally accepted the key position in the “restart” time of the country.
Tensions within LR
But the opponents, who consider it one of the skate officials of the France budget, immediately attacked this event. The national rally leader Marine Le Pen mocked the “pathetic” return of “the man who put France in bankruptcy.” His ally Éric Ciotti also deplored “the return of man to debt of 1,000 billion”, believing that “this government is an arm of honor for the French.”
On the left, the leader of the socialist senators Patrick Kanner joked about the return of the “Mozart of the finance that our country ruined”, while the pattern of marine environmentalists denounced “the premium with incompetence.”
But, above all, it was his name that set fire to the dust in LR, who ended up agreeing to stay in the government in the afternoon at the end of the long delay and a meeting where certain divisions appeared. The choice of this ex-lr who joined Emmanuel Macron in 2017 irritated his former match.
“The government’s composition does not reflect the promised break,” deplored the head of LR and Interior Minister of Bruno Retilleau, announcing a crisis meeting for Monday morning.
“Or Bruno Maire renounces, or we left the government,” said a BFMTV LR executive.
“The Bruno Mire issue made them crazy”
“The matter Bruno Le Maire drove them crazy,” said a centrist frame for the fragile alliance between the right and presidential field that is supposed to support the government.
“‘BLM’ is an irritating for the center, for LR, for the PS, for the RN,” he added, warning the risk of an exit from the government’s right that would force Sébastien Lecornu and Emmanuel Macron to start everything again.
A relative of the Head of State asked himself about “who had the idea” of appointing the former Minister of the Economy. According to concordant sources in BFMTV, the voices also rise inside the central block so that Bruno Maire throws to the towel, although this post post is not on the agenda.
Source: BFM TV
