Bruno Le Maire does not want to say too much about his intentions for 2027 for the moment. While his colleague from the Interior Gérald Darmanin has shown his ambitions in broad daylight in recent weeks, the next presidential election is “not my subject topical,” said the Minister of Economy and Finance on Monday.
The race for the succession of Emmanuel Macron, who will not be able to run at the end of his second term, is “not my topical subject, not that of the French and not that of France”, hammered the number two from the government on France Inter. Gérald Darmanin for his part hinted that he could be a candidate, an intention also attributed to the boss of Bercy despite his denials.
Bruno Le Maire says he is “patient” four years from the deadline
“My subject and my ambition is to have good economic results, to manage to fight against inflation”, assured Bruno Le Maire the day after a large political rally organized by Gérald Darmanin in his stronghold of Tourcoing in the North.
“It seems to me that we are in 2023, a year after the presidential election of 2022. We are not a year before the presidential election of 2027, so let’s stick to the calendars! I am patient,” insisted Bruno Le Maire, while emphasizing that the Minister of the Interior was a “friend” with whom he has “excellent relations”.
The Minister of the Economy also assured that “the working classes have been at the heart of our economic policy since 2017”, while the Minister of the Interior insists on the importance for the government of speaking to the less well-off French people. “Defending the popular categories, for decades, has always been more social redistribution, always more aid”, a policy synonymous with “over-indebtedness of the country and French economic downgrading”, he estimated.
“With Emmanuel Macron, we marked a break: our response was to say that helping the working classes means giving them work, a payroll, and incidentally today fighting against inflation,” said also argues Bruno Le Maire. Finally, two weeks after an interview in which Gérald Darmanin called not to “put our future in the hands of technology and technicians using words that the French do not always understand”, the Minister of the Economy assured that “we all understand perfectly what we say, we simply speak”.