It is not enough to be a Macronist from the start to have a guaranteed place in government.
The president of the Renaissance Law Commission Sacha Houlié has just learned this the hard way.
While Gabriel Attal's new team took more than a month, between the appointment of the Prime Minister on January 9 and the second wave of appointments Thursday evening, to be complete, many took advantage of this period of latency to negotiate in behind the scenes.
And try to get a portfolio.
This is the case of the deputy for Vienne, who was targeting that of Sports or Education.
Two Moroccans whose incumbent Amélie Oudéa-Castéra was, since her appointment, mired in a controversy over the schooling of her children.
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With the new prime minister holding out a position for him, Sacha Houlié has pushed his advantage in recent weeks, as reported by
Les Échos
.
Until the end, he believed in it.
Until Wednesday evening, when the host of Matignon gives him his decision.
“I have the impression of having been taken for an imbecile
,” said the man who was part of the “Poitiers gang”, one of the founding branches of Macronism.
“Vexed”
, he then sent a message to a journalist from the economic daily.
“Justice and merit do not exist, not for people like me,”
squeaks the deputy from the presidential party
.
I have no bitterness, just the determination of those to whom nothing has ever been given.”
“Those who struggle and are needy”
“My story is not written with those of the powerful or the insiders, but with those who have a hard time and are needy. It’s certainly better, it suits me more,”
the parliamentarian implicitly puts things into perspective.
If Sacha Houlié will later regret this bloodshed, he does not link this non-appointment to his rebellion during the vote on the immigration law in December.
“Otherwise why ask me what would interest me?”
, he retorts.
Figure of the left wing of the macronie, the deputy Renaissance had announced with fanfare his refusal to vote for this text largely hardened by the right.
To the point of blowing up the majority.
The parliamentarian may reassure himself as best he can, Emmanuel Macron surely has a memory.