The choice of the Prime Minister who will succeed Jean Castex fuels all speculation.
Socialist MP for Tarn-et-Garonne Valérie Rabault told BFMTV on Tuesday that she had been approached for Matignon.
“Faithful to her convictions”, the boss
PS deputies in the National Assembly refused.
The elected socialist did not want, among other things, to have to bring the pension reform to 65 years old "a useless right-wing marker".
His appointment as head of government before the June legislative elections could have appealed to centre-left voters...
Candidate for re-election in Tarn-et-Garonne
Contacted by BFMTV, Emmanuel Macron's entourage assured that "the President of the Republic has not offered the post of Prime Minister to anyone", and recalls that "there is today a head of government in whom the Head of State has full confidence”.
Valérie Rabault had been regularly cited by ministers or relatives of Emmanuel Macron as being a person with whom "it is possible to work".
The MP for Tarn-et-Garonne is standing for re-election in the 1st constituency, that of Montauban.
She will campaign in her own name "for now", while negotiations between her party and LFI for the legislative elections were still ongoing on Tuesday evening.