Matignon: the name of the Prime Minister will be known this Friday after a day of final negotiations

L'Hôtel de Matignon où prendra place le prochain Premier ministre. EPA – YOAN VALAT

L’hôte de matignon sera finalement connu aujourd’hui en matinée, a indiqué l’Élysée jeudi soir, au retour d’un déplacement en Pologne d’Emmanuel Macron. Suspense…

Never in the recent history of air transport has a Warsaw-Paris flight been scrutinized with as much attention as the one that Emmanuel Macron was due to take this Thursday late afternoon for his return from an official trip to Poland.

Especially when it was announced early in the afternoon that the President of the Republic had “cut short” his initial schedule, canceling a visit to the Warsaw Uprising Museum, to return to the French capital “early in the evening”.

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Shortened visit to Poland

We were finally going to know the name of his Prime Minister, dot, Tuesday, he had promised the nomination “within 48 hours”. But we must definitely be wary of Emmanuel Macron who, since the beginning of his second term, has had a clear tendency to permanently extend deadlines. Including those he sets himself.

On Wednesday, at the end of the Council of Ministers, Maud Bregeon, the government spokesperson, had also suggested that, during this final meeting with Michel Barnier's team, Emmanuel Macron had never mentioned any “temporality” to make his decision public (as recalled by Le Monde in its December 13 edition).
Roland Lescure added to the list of contenders.

Still the same names

Finally, At 7:30 pm on Thursday, the Élysée Palace confirmed that “the press release on the Prime Minister's appointment will be published tomorrow morning”. For one more evening, therefore, the prediction contests could resume.

Always around the same names: François Bayrou and Bernard Cazeneuve regularly cited, Sébastien Lecornu not gone, Catherine Vautrin back in the race.

Always with identical stumbling blocks. Because, even if, apart from La France Insoumise and the National Rally, all the other political forces say they are more or less ready to work together for the interest of the nation, the central bloc still does not want a left-wing Prime Minister, when the Socialist Party, the ecologists and the communists do not want to see a Macronist or a Republican leader enter Matignon.

Verdict expected in the morning

We had a new illustration of this on Thursday when the name of Roland Lescure, Renaissance vice-president of the National Assembly, but from the PS, began to circulate. The revolt was immediately organized, and came rather from the right wing of the central bloc according to Le Figaro. Who doesn’t want Lecornu, as the left wing of Macronie had crucified a hypothesis Catherine Vautrin at Matignon in July 2022, judged, she, too far to the right. Which had in fact favored the arrival of Élisabeth Borne.

In other words: no one was more advanced on Thursday at the time of the evening television news, while waiting for the verdict hoped for this Friday morning. Well, if all goes well.