“The party of the Order” largely responsible for the unprecedented political crisis that France is going through. However, the fierce defender of a participation in the government of François Bayrou, then of Sébastien Lecornu, Bruno Retailleau exploited the common base and formed in his fall the prime minister on Monday morning.
Since then, the tenant resigned from the place Beauvau has been trying to catch up. But isn’t it already too late?
“We would not have gone well from all this. He is someone who is very annoying with his interlocutors, never a word above order. I did not see things happening like this at all,” sighs an LR senator disappointed with BFMTV.
Fewer ministers than under Bayrou? “Fileteable”
We redress. This Sunday night, after weeks of waiting, the prime minister has just presented his government. But for the interior minister, it gets stuck. In everything and for everything, there are only four members of the right in the ministerial cast, therefore, Rachida Dati to culture, Annie Ginevard to agriculture and Philippe Tabarot, added to the suit of Bruno Retailleau.
The account is not there for a party that has continued in recent months to launch that it was “back.”
“We could not be less numerous than under François Bayrou. It was unthinkable, it would have completely demonetized and broken all our discourse on our fundamental side essential for the government”, Decrypts an LR deputy.
And it is a shame if Sébastien Lecornu warned that there would be a second salvo of delegate ministers and state secretariats and therefore so many opportunities to attract right-wing lieutenants.
Therefore, the balance is right and even the names of the right ministers have a bitter taste by Bruno Retaileau. None of his friends entered the government: European MP François-Xavier Bellamy and Othman Nasrou, Ephemer Secretary of State for Citizenship under Michel Barnier.
“It’s just not possible”
To make matters worse, Bruno Le Maire, honored by the right since his meeting with Emmanuel Macron and considered largely responsible by his political family for the degradation of the country’s financial situation after 7 years in Bercy, returns to the government. Surprise of the boss, the former minister of the economy is appointed to the armies. Bruno Retailleau says that Sébastien Lecornu “hid” the appointment of Bruno Le Maire.
“Sébastien Lecornu talked about a rupture when he passed power and we ended up with that in La Défense. It was simply not possible. We tried to make ourselves look like idiots,” an ex-minister on the right upsets.
“The fundamental problem is that we understood that we were going to be vassalized, that the Prime Minister would not consider us. We did not want to go under these conditions and we told him,” explains one of his colleagues.
Anxious not to lose feathers in his own movement, the interior minister therefore appeals to a killer tweet on Sunday night that will prevail the fall of Sébastien Lecornu who is known without the majority in the absence of support from the right.
XXL foot change
The Home Secretary, however, plays Daredevil. Hadn’t he already begged before his troops gathered in Visio just a few hours early on Sunday afternoon for his presence in the government? The absence of the right “would aggravate the institutional and financial crisis that would threaten our country and open the door to an arrival of the left,” he explains in front of his flock.
What’s more, he had even read them the email addressed by Sébastien Lecornu in which the Prime Minister evoked some “correct guidelines” Dixit Bruno Retailleau. What prompts LR parliamentarians to largely vote their entry into the new government.
Suffice it to say that the change of foot of the interior minister resigning just a few hours later made the greasy cabbage of the camp of Laurent Wauquiez, his competitor last spring during the race for the presidency of the LR.
“For months, we had managed to embody with the French a fortress of stability and responsibility. What happened on Sunday damaged this image,” thundered the president of the right-wing deputies this Tuesday morning in a group meeting.
Mockery of Laurent Wauquiez
This should not be angry with an electorate particularly sensitive to political stability, especially since Sébastien Lecornu did not hesitate to attack Bruno Retailleau during the announcement of his resignation. The prime minister lamented “the awakening of partisan appetite” as “the presidential elections” approach.
“It would have been more glorious to act like Laurent Wauquiez, a non-participation of the LR compared to the program, rather than a casting problem,” the president of the LR deputies still mocks.
Obviously eager to get out of the trap, Bruno Retailleau assures CNEWS this Tuesday morning, he is not “being responsible” for the political chaos and takes the opportunity to work on his future presidential stature.
“I did not hesitate to emphasize” my publication “to tell the truth to the French”, presenting myself as a sacrificial victim in the name of the general interest.
“Political wars”
Actually, in the LR camp, we care. Unknown before his arrival place Beauvau, the Minister of the Interior had managed in a few months to make a place for himself in the polls for 2027, despite a rather nuanced evaluation in the interior. For weeks, his entourage has been thinking about his departure to sail for the presidential election and has always promised that he would be in basic disagreement.
Result: his departure has the appearance of “indigestible drums”, judges a Macronist deputy, from the LR.
“If you ask me if we could have done better, I’m not going to say otherwise. It’s true that everything applies to politicians in the eyes of the French. We have a bit of morality in our socks,” laments a mayor on the right.
On France 2 on Tuesday night, Bruno Retailleau swept away any regrets. The interior minister resigning opens the door to participation, but sets conditions: “Certainly not if this government was led by a man on the left, certainly not if this government was led by a Macronist.”
Or the current equation under Michel Barnier, who did not exceed three months in Matignon.
Source: BFM TV
