The new spokesperson for the executive, Maud Bregeon, is faced with a delicate personal equation: a fierce defender of Macronist positions, starting with the pension reform, she knows that the government’s survival is largely due to the announcement of a suspension demanded by the socialists.
The role of spokesperson for a government threatened with censure, with the almost impossible mission of getting a budget approved in a sclerotic Parliament, is not new for this deputy from Hauts-de-Seine. The 34-year-old political leader already held this position in Michel Barnier’s team, appointed prime minister in September 2024 after the dissolution… and fell three months later, in December.
“In this difficult moment for the country and often distressing for our fellow citizens, I have only one objective: to contribute to the success of Sébastien Lecornu and this government,” he reacted in X after his appointment on Sunday afternoon. Their mottos: “Appeasement, stability, sobriety.” A calm tone that contrasts with the recent statements, often frank and sometimes poorly received by the Socialist Party, of this media personality from the Macronist camp, close to the Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin.
On Sunday afternoon, the general secretary of the PS, Pierre Jouvet, even cited his name as one of the appointments that did not give “very good signals” to the rose party, which nevertheless holds the key to the government’s survival. He recalled in particular on BFMTV that Maud Bregeon “spoke very strongly” last week against the appointment of a left-wing Prime Minister.
“The commitment is not to put both knees on the ground”
On television, this well-known “beater” politician also came forward to ardently defend Elisabeth Borne’s pension reform, at a time when Sébastien Lecornu was negotiating with the PS. A reform that she has “supported for years” and on which she “campaigned twice” during her election as a deputy in 2022 and then in 2024, and whose suspension “would be absolutely dramatic,” she insisted three days before her appointment on TF1.
In an internal loop within the Macronist group in the Assembly, Maud Bregeon even writes: “The commitment is not to put both knees on the ground for fear of dissolution.”
On Monday, on RTL, the spokesman for the new government had no qualms: “I am not here to take people for imbeciles. My position on the pension reform is known. However, I am a democrat, which does not mean that I reject the debate. Everyone will assume their responsibilities.”
This former EDF engineer, nuclear specialist, originally from Poitiers, joined the Macronist family from the beginning, joining En Marche in November 2016. She is currently in a relationship with the Renaissance deputy Pierre Cazeneuve, son of the Renaissance deputy Jean-René Cazeneuve.
In March 2020, he became municipal councilor of Levallois-Perret, after failing to succeed Patrick Balkany during the municipal elections. A few months later, she became a spokesperson for the Macronist movement and then resigned from the EDF following her election as a deputy for Hauts-de-Seine in 2022.
In the chamber, the chosen Renaissance had distinguished herself as the rapporteur of the nuclear recovery bill adopted in 2023. Known as “ambitious” in her camp, a source from the socialist group describes her as “one of the last incarnations of arrogant Macronism.”
Source: BFM TV
