Bertrand Delanoë says he declined to head a ministry when he was asked by Emmanuel Macron, of whom he was the deputy. “Social policy was in deficit from the first mandate.
And there I think that a certain number of defects have worsened,” he argued. The former mayor of Paris (2001-2014), now aged 73, judged the debut of the Prime Minister, appointed in January, “courageous” “I do not share his orientation which I do not find left-wing”, he detailed.