The decision, unexpected by its brutality, is up to the exasperation of Emmanuel Macron. Challenged in the worst possible way this Sunday by Cédric Villani, who maintained his dissident candidacy in Paris after being received with great pomp at the Elysée Palace, the president decided to operate alive in what is akin to an act authority on the Biarritz case, which has been poisoning the executive for weeks. While two of its ministers, Didier Guillaume (Agriculture) and Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs), were about to clash at the municipal level in this city of 25,000 inhabitants, the Palace announced on Wednesday evening that none would ultimately be a candidate! The two withdraw and remain members of the government, "at the request of the president", thunders his entourage.
Received at length - an hour and a half - Tuesday evening by the Head of State in person, Didier Guillaume, from the ranks of the PS, would have been summoned to return quickly to the rank and give up his dissident candidacy project. LREM is in fact preparing to support the outgoing MoDem mayor of Biarritz, Michel Veunac. "That was where Guillaume left the government! Pings a very close to the president, threatening. "We are not going to change the minister for the fourth time, while we are a few weeks from the Agricultural Show", vituperates another source in the executive, who recalls that the function has already been occupied by the macronists Jacques Mézard and Stéphane Travert.
Guillaume, who was completely willing to give up his morocco, did he get a consolation prize? Could he inherit a candidacy for regional? As of this writing, the Minister of Agriculture has not publicly noted the presidential decision. A hypothesis, baroque - and a priori buried - has circulated that it appears on the list of Michel Veunac ... The same one against whom he had very officially applied and that he was about to face.
Villani will no longer work with LREM
All day Wednesday, this ubiquitous situation had continued to evolve, turning almost vaudeville behind the scenes of power. While LREM had to settle the Biarritz file during its executive committee in the evening, the party was asked in the middle of the day to wait. As for the potential successors of the Minister of Agriculture, given out, we wondered whether or not to prepare the boxes. The names of the ministers Marc Fesneau (Parliament), Sébastien Lecornu (Communities) or Amélie de Montchalin (European Affairs) had circulated, like that, favorite, of the deputy LREM of Creuse and farmer of his state, Jean-Baptiste Moreau. "Honestly, in place of the president, you keep Didier Guillaume in government! He was patron of the socialist senators, he comes from the left, he can be useful politically ”, deciphers a senior executive of the macronie.
As for Cédric Villani, whom the Elysée had chosen to save at the end of the summer so as not to make him a victim - and to avoid that he takes with him other LREM deputies -, he was banned on Wednesday evening of La République en Marche. And this, unanimously from the executive office. As a loyal head of state underlines, in allusion to the snub inflicted on François Hollande by a young Rom live on television, he is not given "Leonarda" with impunity.
