The table of the Council of Ministers will eventually give up. Because every week, or almost, Emmanuel Macron puts a particular care to "bang his fist", according to the expression consecrated. Tuesday morning's weekly meeting was no exception to what has become a rule over the years. According to several participants, the President of the Republic took advantage of this cenacle to settle accounts with different personalities, on the various subjects of the moment. Thus its Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, who saw fit to target this weekend the National Rally on the ground of values. A party "heir to Pétain" and bearer according to her of a "dangerous ideology".
"The fight against the far right is no longer based on moral arguments. You will not succeed in making millions of French people who voted for the far right believe that they are fascists," the head of state dryly reframed, without however mentioning by name the head of government, sitting opposite him. "He said...
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