This time, it's the right one. By appointing Aurore Bergé to the Ministry of Solidarity, Autonomy and Disability, in place of Jean-Christophe Combe, Emmanuel Macron puts an end to a long cycle of disappointments renewed with each reshuffle. The 36-year-old's entry into government marks the completion of a winding political journey that began early.
It was at barely 16 years old that the Yvelinoise became involved in politics in the wake of the shock of the presence of Jean-Marie Le Pen in the second round of the 2002 presidential election. It will be with the young people of the UMP of which she will fail to take the lead.
His successive allegiances to Nicolas Sarkozy, François Fillon and Alain Juppé stick to him an unpleasant and persistent image of opportunist that his rallying to Emmanuel Macron in February 2017 does not mitigate. The liberal prefers to recall her constant convictions on Europe, feminism and her support, then a minority within the UMP, for marriage for all.
In the Assembly, loyal but independent of the executive
In the legislative elections that followed, she defeated the ultra-conservative candidate Jean-François Poisson in the 10th constituency of Yvelines. Appointed spokesperson for the LREM group and then the party in January 2019, the one who worked for a time in communication and public relations, specializes in the Assembly on audiovisual and educational issues.
She gradually makes her own melody heard, affirming an uncompromising line on secularism. For example, by proposing an amendment to the separatism law to ban the wearing of the veil for girls. Enough to split even within his own political family of adoption. No matter: the daughter of Sylvester Stallone's French voice loves to box. In September 2020, she was knocked out by Christophe Castaner to succeed Gilles Le Gendre as president of the group.
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But returned to the ring, successfully this time, after being re-elected MP in June 2022. The LREM group, which became Renaissance, grew from 266 to 171 members. But here is a highly strategic function in an assembly without an absolute majority where no text can be adopted without discussions with the other groups.
Elected without the support of the President of the Republic, she assumes a line that wants to be loyal but independent of the executive, as on the issue of the fight against squats. Let it be said: Bergé will not be a sheep president. In June, she announced that she wanted to enshrine abortion in the Constitution, taking her MoDem and Horizons allies by surprise, who regularly accused her of going it alone. The draft will eventually be voted on by the Assembly.
Accused of political instrumentalization by the opposition
The MP met with less success in March when she proposed, with the Quatennens case in mind, a text on the ineligibility of perpetrators of aggravated violence. At the rostrum, the knocker lets the varnish crack: "Yes, I know exactly what I'm talking about when I talk about domestic violence," she whispers, tears in her eyes.
The opposition screams at political instrumentalization. An accusation that Aurore Bergé will renew again recently when she Bergé tries to discredit a proposal of the independent group Liot by evoking the tragedy of children stabbed in Annecy or by evoking the death of a firefighter to denounce the positioning of LFI during the urban riots. It is now on the bench of ministers that the thirty-year-old will be able to continue to exchange blows with her political opponents.