“Smell of cohabitation”, “Someone with experience”… Emmanuel Macron still looking for the future Prime Minister

Still no new Prime Minister in France. Halfway through the “Olympic and political truce“Requested by Emmanuel Macron on July 22, the political impasse continues. If the president had assured that no nomination would take place during the Paris Olympic Games, he had given an appointment”mid August”, calling on political forces”republicans“to take advantage of this break to do some”compromise“.

Meanwhile, the executive is dispatching the “Current affairs“And, behind the scenes, the negotiations continue. Although no specific date has been announced, elected officials and ministers are banking on the week of August 12, or even the week of the 19th. “We must show that the result of the ballot boxes is visible“, believes a member of the resigning government.

The fact remains that the New Popular Front is still trying to impose Lucie Castets at Matignon, but is coming up against the categorical refusal of the president. For the moment, the head of state is taking advantage of the truce that he himself declared and is thinking about it: the name of Xavier Bertrand, the president of Les Républicains in the Hauts-de-France region, is being mentioned, as is that of Michel Barnier, the European Union’s negotiator for Brexit and former minister of Nicolas Sarkozy.

According to a close friend of the president, the next head of government will have “a smell of cohabitation“.
“Someone who has experience“, imagines a minister… And this “someone“will have to succeed in an almost impossible mission: finding coalitions to pass texts within an Assembly divided into three blocs, while avoiding a motion of censure. Emmanuel Macron is therefore looking for the “five-legged sheep” to get France out of the political impasse, born of the dissolution of the National Assembly.