He'll want to choose ministers he considers best for the country himself,
In the coming weeks, he'll want to have direct contact with the French,
He's a little bit like my little brother,
Emmanuel Macron can't stand still. He won't be able to remain on the sidelines,
We won't have the same presidency,
Politicians don't change, least of all Macron,
The president will preside and the government will govern,
This is a man who has never been excessive in the way he has spoken about the RN or wanted to ban it,
Mr. Barnier is a prime minister under the surveillance of a party which is now unignorable in the parliamentary and democratic game: the National Rally. The reality is that nothing can be done now without us."
Democracy isn't just the art of accepting that you've won, it's also the humility of accepting that you've lost,
Where is my vote?"
The French people are in rebellion, they have entered into revolution,
Barnier is not a centrist. He’s always been part of the Conservative Party,
It shows the alliance that Macron wants to form since it will be with the far right that he is choosing to govern,
It’s a shift. It’s a turn to the right for sure. The far right, which was defeated in July, is now in a position of strength, sort of a kingmaker. Macron’s party and the Republicans do not have enough votes without the RN,
One was to invite the left, who came out on top, to choose someone. But Macron dismissed this early on, saying that everyone else would censure a candidate on the left,
Barnier comes from the fourth block in terms of electoral strength: the number of MPs. This is unusual, the prime minister should normally come from a more dominant block,
He’s a staple in French politics. He’s been around long enough that we can criticise things he did in the ’80s, which on one hand doesn’t feel fair, but on the other, that’s the lifecycle of politics,
It’s a sharp contrast to the France we portrayed during the opening ceremony that was very open, very liberal. We’ve gone from a gay prime minister [Attal] to a very conservative one,
Macron made no compromises. That’s what is the most disappointing. I wasn’t expecting much, but I am still really disappointed,