Emmanuel Macron is accustomed to painful changes.
In the present case, the Head of State nevertheless broke records: four weeks to complete the composition of the government, with a psychodrama at the top in the last 24 hours and final negotiations delaying the sending of the press release, without cure of spectacular weight loss (35 people, while the promise was to go below 30) and without the slightest surprise.
A minister prefers to laugh about it (yellow): “The
wow
effect is to finally have a list.
» A way like any other to play down this soap opera, politically very costly for the executive couple.
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When at the end of the morning, this February 8, Gabriel Attal meets Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée for yet another arbitration meeting, the presidential camp is upside down.
By announcing on his own that he would not enter the government for lack of "deep agreement on the policy to follow", before curtailing the "drift" of a power that he considers disconnected, François Bayrou opened a crisis.
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