While waiting for the formation of a new government, Xavier Bertrand is refining his strategy

Some right-wing executives, gathered around the president of the Hauts-de-France region, must meet in the coming days to refine their strategy in order to participate in a government and even take Matignon.

Managing “current affairs”, but until when? The Attal government officially resigned on Tuesday, July 16, but remains in charge of “current affairs”, probably for at least “a few weeks“. “The responsibility of the outgoing majority is to put a proposal on the table with a view to a majority coalition or a broad legislative pact.“, declared Emmanuel Macron in the Council of Ministers, according to a participant in franceinfo.

But if the New Popular Front is still struggling to agree on a candidate for Matignon, the deputies of the Republican right are moving forward with their project of “legislative pact“, without however entering a government, according to the wishes of Laurent Wauquiez, new president of the Republican Right group in the Assembly. But there are still members of the Republican Right who want to go further: participate in a government and even take Matignon.

Some right-wing executives, gathered around Xavier Bertrand, will thus meet in the coming days to refine their strategy, determined to pass “the second“. The president of the Hauts-de-France region is planning a meeting with people on trial”constructive“, like Jean-Francois Copé and the UDI Hervé Morin. Essentially elected officials from communities who do not want to”not let France Insoumise take control of the government!” said one participant.

According to several local elected officials, Xavier Bertrand would like to see himself as Prime Minister, “As a representative of the social right, he believes he has a common denominator with the socialists.“, explains a close friend. The president of the Hauts-de-France region told several people that he had had contact with left-wing elected officials who were sensitive to his approach close to national unity.

But this initiative, for the moment discreet, does not have unanimous support in the Republican right: Laurent Wauquiez and most of the deputies repeat that it is out of the question to enter into a coalition government. And a pillar of the right comments: “Wauquiez and Bertrand hate each other so much that I can’t imagine the former letting the latter take Matignon.“.