Minister Aurore Bergé pleads in favor of a “new Prime Minister” who knows how to “build compromises”

Aurore Bergé, the resigning minister responsible for equality between men and women, is calling for a “new prime minister” who knows “building compromises”citing the names of three right-wing leaders, Xavier Bertrand, Michel Barnier and Gérard Larcher, in an interview with Figaro posted online Sunday August 4.

Xavier Bertrand, current president of the Hauts-de-France region and former minister, Michel Barnier, former European commissioner and former minister, and the president of the Senate Gérard Larcher “have solid experience of government, parliament and compromise”said the Macronist minister. However, she ruled out the possibility that Lucie Castets, candidate of the left-wing alliance New Popular Front, who came out on top in the early legislative elections, would be appointed to Matignon because “No one can say ‘my whole program, nothing but my program'”.

“We do not need a technical government, but a political government, with experienced people who know how to build compromises, while being respected by the deputies and the French people.”added the MP for Yvelines, herself from the right. Aurore Bergé hopes that this government will succeed “to go beyond the right, to the social democrats” provided that these come out “of their unnatural alliance with LFI”.

The Macronist minister also aspires to “a refoundation within the Renaissance party, which cannot exist without a real constructive dialogue” with the allied parties Horizons and MoDem, and “putting the National Rally face to face with its contradictions” without however the“exclude” institutions of the National Assembly. “It’s a voice that I will carry”she assures, while the presidential movement must hold its congress by the end of November, and the resigning Prime Minister Gabriel Attal is said to intend to take over the party.