In a few days, French political life will resume its course after a few weeks of parliamentary leave. As of Wednesday, Emmanuel Macron and his government will meet for their first Council of Ministers of this political year 2023-2024. On the opposition side, the left and Les Républicains will also make their comeback during rallies and rallies.
The Head of State and his “large” political project
The executive meets on Wednesday at the Elysée for the back-to-school Council of Ministers, a month after a minimal reshuffle. This summer, Emmanuel Macron remained particularly discreet at Fort Brégançon: just a river speech Thursday during the commemorations of the Liberation of the Var city, on future commemorations to come on the soldiers of the Liberation.
The Head of State has not yet mentioned the “major political initiative” announced this summer and expected by the end of the month. Emmanuel Macron intends to meet the “political forces of the republican arc”, – without the RN or LFI -, to “determine projects on which to walk together”. But no question of a coalition for a president deprived of an absolute majority in the Assembly.
On the menu, according to the Elysée: ecology, public services, work, order, progress, immigration… The initiative undoubtedly aims to obtain a minimum of harmony as the Rugby World Cup (September 8) and the Games approach. Olympics of 2024. But the twelve months which open will also be marked by two electoral deadlines: the senatorial elections of September 24 and the European elections in June.
New 49.3 almost guaranteed for Borne
Confirmed with lip service to Matignon, Elisabeth Borne must for her part receive this week the leaders of the parties of her majority and hold meetings on the budget, a crucial meeting for the start of the school year with new 49.3 almost assured.
A government seminar is in the pipeline for the following week, which will also see the Prime Minister intervene when the Medef returns. After a turbulent first year – pension reform, riots – in what state is its majority? The re-entries of Renaissance, Modem and Horizons will wait until mid-September, or even early October. But a minister no longer intends to wait and is already planning on the presidential election of 2027: Gérald Darmanin.
Gérald Darmanin tackles the “bobo-liberals of the left” of macronie
Sunday August 27, in his stronghold of Tourcoing (North), the Minister of the Interior holds his first political return on the theme of the working classes, too forgotten according to him by the “technicians” and the “bobo-liberals of the left” of the macronie. Compliments to the address of the president and the Prime Minister launched by the ex-leader LR, encouraged for the Elysée by Nicolas Sarkozy.
A new stone from the former president in the garden of the Republicans (LR), who hold their return to school the same day in Levens (Alpes-Maritimes), in the stronghold of their boss Éric Ciotti, with the announced presence of Laurent Wauquiez.
The left is bogged down in the Medina controversy
On the left too, the start of the school year will be lively. Coalified under the Nupes banner in the Assembly, the parties also add up the pleasantries. The Insoumis are furious at having obtained nothing from their comrades in view of the senatorial elections as well as their refusal of a single list for the Europeans.
Ecologists and rebels have nevertheless found a common point: Medina. The presence of the rapper, accused of anti-Semitism, in particular after a controversial tweet, at the “ecological days” then at the “Amphis” of La France insoumise creates the quarrel among the Greens and provides an angle of attack for the right and the majority .
“This tweet is anti-Semitic, there is no shadow of a doubt” and “he should have recognized it”, declared Sandrine Rousseau, stressing that the arrival of the rapper must be conditioned by the recognition of his “fault”.
Medina will also debate next Saturday at LFI with the patroness of rebellious deputies Mathilde Panot. But the reception in Châteauneuf-sur-Isère (Drôme) is less reserved. “Medina is not racist”, evacuated Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Apologies, “I think he should not even have made any,” explained LFI deputy David Guiraud on Saturday.