The president of the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur region, Renaud Muselier, was the guest of 8:30 a.m. franceinfo Tuesday May 3. He answered questions from Lorrain Sénéchal and Neila Latrous.
Elisabeth Borne, Prime Minister? An “easy” appointment
“More you talk about Elisabeth Borne, the more you shoot her”assured Renaud Muselier, when asked about the possibility for Emmanuel Macron to appoint a woman as Prime Minister. “If you speak of a woman on the left, there are not 50 capable of it”he admitted, however. “Technically, humanly, it’s easy with her. But we have to stop talking about it.”
“You will still wait”warns the ex-LR, now supporting the President of the Republic. Emmanuel Macron is not yet president. Once he is invested, before May 13, he will present his Prime Minister, then a government. According to Renaud Muselier, it was between May 10 and May 20 that Emmanuel Macron will build its majority and its government for “structuring the next five years”, “or in any case the period until the legislative elections”.
Decentralization: “Everything is decided by Paris”
“It’s necessary a decentralized country”pleaded Renaud Muselier. “Everything is decided by Paris”he lamented. “A verticalized country”according to him, “it does not work”. Support for Emmanuel Macron in the presidential election and for the next legislative elections, he hopes more competences for the regions, even if it does not have “no insurance” of the President of the Republic on this point. Renaud Muselier thus asks more skills in “health”, “the environment” and “everything that is not regalian”. “In terms of proximity, we are stronger”he assures us, based in particular on what was done during the health crisis. “We were much more responsive than the government” who “did not speak to the prefects”.
Legislative: LR “does not get along with anyone”
According to Renaud Muselier, The Republicans “are the only ones who did not understand what happened in the first round” of the presidential election. “All those who have made less than 5% are trying to find solutions to have a parliamentary voice and my own family does not get along with anyone. They correspond more to the sect of the Solar Temple which will immolate itself and disappear.” Renaud Muselier also castigates François-Xavier Bellamy who asks Nicolas Sarkozy for clarity. “He has never won an election and he is asking for explanations from the last President of the Republic of our political family, a wise and experienced man. Let him stay in his place, in his sandbox.”