The Élysée wants a woman in power but has not yet found the ideal candidate for the post. Or at least, the role of Prime Minister does not seem to interest more than that according to the last refusals suffered by Emmanuel Macron. Indeed, the one who has just been re-elected by a large part of the French would have already offered the post of Jean Castex to two people. Véronique Bédague, who was “long received in the middle of the week by the secretary general of the Élysée, Alexis Kohler”as reported The Parisian, as well as Valérie Rabault, PS deputy and president of the socialist group in the National Assembly.
During the first interview, Emmanuel Macron would even “passed a head” but that does not seem to have been enough to convince Véronique Bédague to become the first female Prime Minister since Edith Cresson in 1991. But the desire of the Elysée seems to be to place a woman at the highest level in the government hierarchy. Given that according to our colleagues from BFM-TV, the Élysée would have tried again to convince one, without success.
A woman and then that’s all
Indeed, Valérie Rabault would have been received to discuss a possible assumption of duties in the coming weeks. If the idea of becoming Prime Minister could have attracted him, it is mainly because of a point of disgrace with Emmanuel Macron that the president of the socialist group in the National Assembly preferred to hand over. “The retirement of 65 years is not necessary and it was a marker to have a cursor on the right. I am faithful to my convictions even if I understood that the line that we carry, that of social democracy, n is more majority in the country”she explained to BFM-TV.
If she is not going to stay in Matignon, this does not prevent Valérie Rabault from having many projects and in particular for her constituency. “The situation on the left is extremely complex, I don’t know what it will lead to. I will represent myself in my constituency”she announced the one who will be a candidate for re-election in the first constituency in Tarn-et-Garonne.
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