Michel Barnier will have to “seek his legitimacy with his hands”, analyses Dominique de Villepin

The former tenant of Matignon points out that this is the first time that the legitimacy of a Prime Minister has not been given by either the President or Parliament.

Prime Minister Michel Barnier has the assets of “know-how, negotiator and experience”judges Thursday September 12 on France Inter the former tenant of Matignon Dominique de Villepin, but he will have to “to seek legitimacy with one’s hands, to build it”he warns.

This is part of the “oddities” who make “the new policy” today, according to the former Prime Minister of Jacques Chirac: this time, legitimacy of the Prime Minister “is not given, neither by the President of the Republic, nor by Parliament”.

Dominique de Villepin highlights two other “oddities” of the current situation. First, the absence of a clear political line, with “a Prime Minister who will solicit ministers without us knowing the policy he will give”and ministers who will discover their missions “in three weeks”.

Furthermore, he insists on “the balance of political power” who is “completely reversed”. “This is the fifth party to arrive in order [Les Républicains, ndlr]who comes first”he exclaims. Furthermore, on the “institutional plan”, “The President of the Republic has lost some of his prerogatives, it is the government that governs”. Finally, he notes that the “The Prime Minister is under threat from parliament, parliamentary groups, political parties and he is under threat from his ministers.” “During Michel Barnier’s entire term at Matignon, his ministers will be able to tell him every day ‘if you do that, I’m leaving’,” he anticipates.

He claims a “confidence shock” from a Prime Minister who, according to him, must “to show its capacity for greater order and justice, and to respond to the problems of the French”. He considers that there is “elements that dominate”as “immigration” for which it is necessary “act through diplomatic channels”.

He tackles Emmanuel Macron for having “playing politics in the bedroom, and not having approached a Prime Minister and not having allowed him to go and negotiate himself”. He has “a share of responsibility” in fact “to end up with a tasteless lunch”. “We mixed everything together: main course, starter, dessert”he tackles.