David Desgouilles is a columnist for Marianne . He published Dérapage (éd. Du Rocher, 2017) and Leur guerres perdues , (éd. Du Rocher, 2019).
FIGAROVOX.- Jean Castex in place of Édouard Philippe, is sarkozysm prevailing over juppeism?
David DESGOUILLES.- In any case, one very close to Alain Juppé is replaced by a close collaborator of Nicolas Sarkozy at the Élysée. Let us recognize, however, that juppeism and sarkozyzme are differentiated more by posture than on the ideological background.
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Even with regard to the attitude towards Emmanuel Macron, there are not so many differences. We very quickly saw that juppeism was soluble in the new world of Emmanuel Macron, the designation of Edouard Philippe being its symbol. But Nicolas Sarkozy was not outdone. He did not discourage Gérald Darmanin from accepting the Ministry of Public Accounts. He also ostensibly accepted the invitation of Emmanuel Macron to participate with him in a ceremony a few days before the European election when the party he had founded was in difficulty. And today, we are told that the former president was the first that Jean Castex called to announce the news of his appointment to Matignon.
It remains for us to observe the complete composition of the government and the Prime Minister's general policy speech.Should we expect an end to the Lampedonian five-year term: "everything must change so that nothing changes" ?
Emmanuel Macron invited us all to reinvent ourselves, "him first" , when he made his speech announcing the deconfinement. Almost three months after this speech, it seems that ambitions have been lowered. We obviously have to observe the complete composition of the government and the Prime Minister's general policy speech. But the political positioning of the new Prime Minister is no different, we repeat, from that of his predecessor. And the interview granted by the president to the regional daily press is very different from the promised reinvention.
Jean Castex will he keep the qualities of Edouard Philippe (his calm and his precision had reassured the French at the height of the crisis) while embodying the new breath that the country needs? Will he be able to lead a policy of appeasement in a France whose social body seems more fractured than ever?
Franck Louvrier, mayor of La Baule and also a former adviser to Nicolas Sarkozy, seems to believe so. Jean Castex was close to Xavier Bertrand, worked in contact with Raymond Soubie. He knows what social dialogue means. For the new lease of life, it is above all Emmanuel Macron to provoke it. Jean Castex is not a man of parliament. It has only become known to the general public in recent weeks. It is impossible to say whether he will rise to the challenges, which are gigantic. The record abstention in the second round of the municipal elections testifies to the disillusionment of the French with regard to the political life of their country.
I will content myself with hoping for changes in two sovereign ministries, the Interior and Justice, whose current incumbents have shown serious shortcomings.Do you risk predictions for the future government? Or at least a few wishes?
I will not risk any prognosis. As far as possible wishes are concerned, I will content myself with hoping for changes in two sovereign ministries, the Interior and Justice, whose current incumbents have shown serious shortcomings at this level. We can also hope that we will change the spokesperson. Because politics is serious.
Finally, if the government has a few more LR ministers, I hope that the party led by Christian Jacob will not pretend to dissociate itself, that it will assume this new axis that has already emerged during the municipal elections in many cities. Voters and LR activists have the right to clarity.
