Already the end of summer. Elected officials on all sides are agitating to prepare as well as possible for a political return which promises to be busy with the prospect of senatorial elections starting in September and that of European elections next June. This does not prevent some from already having their eyes fixed on the next presidential election. Overview.
Darmanin. Next weekend, all attention is likely to focus on the ambitions of one man: the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, who seems determined to take a step towards 2027. Or so it seems his entourage to ensure the success of the unprecedented political return of the first cop in France, in his stronghold of Tourcoing in the North, Sunday August 27. The invitations were distributed very widely to parliamentarians: to all macronists, so as to position the current tenant of Place Beauvau as an obvious future leader, as well as to some of his former comrades Les Républicains with whom he has kept a sympathy, in order to enlarge its majority.
In terms of voter support, the first cop in France intends to stand out by addressing the working classes, all with the “approval” of the president, he promised Le Figaro. The Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, described in the same daily, in hollow, as a supporter of a “bobo-liberal left”, is one of the few not to have received a card.
EELV. On the political side, this year it is the left-wing formations that open the ball. The European Ecology-The Greens summer days will be held from August 24 to 26, in the city of former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe, in Le Havre, Seine-Maritime. The aedile is also announced among the “surprise” guests. More than Alain Juppé’s former protege, green activists will come to listen to their declared head of the list for the next European elections: Marie Toussaint. And witness a debate that has already caused a lot of ink to flow: that between the party’s national secretary, Marine Tondelier, and the controversial rapper Médine.
PS. The same weekend will meet less than 100 kilometers away the party at the Rose, in Blois, in the Loir-et-Cher. A reunion that does not promise to be free of intra-family tensions. Carole Delga, socialist president of the Occitanie region and fervent opponent of Nupes, declined the invitation. On July 26, she told Liberation that she did not want to “appear next to Olivier Faure”, the first secretary of the Socialist Party, whose decisions make her “too ashamed” to join in the festivities. As for François Hollande’s former Prime Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, he was simply not invited. The organizers intend to compensate for their absences by inviting the Insoumis deputies Manuel Bompard and Clémentine Autain who responded present. Like the MEP and former environmentalist presidential candidate, Yannick Jadot.
pc. The traffic jam of the left-wing rallies, this same weekend, is very likely to serve as an excuse for the Communists to explain the absence of any representative of the Nupes during their summer universities which will be held in Strasbourg, in the Bas -Rhine, also from 25 to 27 August. The jumps in popularity in various barometers of their leader, Fabien Roussel, in recent weeks, are already fueling all the party’s ambitions for the Europeans, whose head of the list, Léon Deffontaines, will speak on Sunday around noon.
New Center. The day before, Saturday August 26, supporters of the centrists will meet for the Apple Festival in Épreville-en-Lieuvin in the Eure around the president of the Normandy region and leader of the movement, Hervé Morin. MEP Les Républicains, François-Xavier Bellamy, is invited to speak.
LR. A courtesy that the Les Républicains party does not intend to return the next day, Sunday, August 27. No outside guest was invited this time to its back-to-school festivities, which will be held on the lands of its president, Éric Ciotti, in the Alpes-Maritimes, in Levens. On the program, a lunch where will be seated in particular the president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, Laurent Wauquiez, that of the LR group in the Senate, Bruno Retailleau, the mayor of Cannes and boss of the Association of mayors of France, David Lisnard , or the leader of the LR deputies, Olivier Marleix.
Reconquest. To avoid any competition, it is not the last weekend of August, but 10 days later, from September 7 to 10, that Éric Zemmour’s party has chosen to hold its summer universities, like the previous year, straddling the Var and the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, in Gréoux-les-Bains. In addition to the demographer Jean-Paul Gourévitch and the editorialist Ivan Rioufol, the movement invited the author of La France, Mechanical Orange and Guerrilla, Laurent Obertone, to take part in its round tables. After the first days reserved for the training of executives and activists, the event will conclude with a speech by the three vice-presidents of the movement, Marion Maréchal, Guillaume Peltier and Nicolas Bay, then by a speech by the presidential candidate: Eric Zemmour.
Horizons. The following week, it will be Horizons’ turn to organize its return. Édouard Philippe’s party will hold its parliamentary days as well as an “Assembly of Mayors” on September 15 in Angers in Maine-et-Loire. The city of the Minister of Energy Transition, and Secretary General of the party, Christophe Béchu. Enough to give the mayor of Le Havre and putative contender for the next presidential election an image of proximity and anchoring in the territories. The raout will be chaired by one of his followers, Christian Estrosi. Fifteen days after the return of the mayor of Nice, in the traditional Albert I gardens of his city.
RN. The next day will open on September 15 and 16 the “Estivales” of the National Gathering in the arenas of Beaucaire, in the Gard. An event under the sign of “local traditions”, promises the movement. As every year, the speeches of the finalist of the last presidential election, Marine Le Pen, and the president of the movement, Jordan Bardella, will close the demonstration on Saturday at the end of the day. The opportunity for the latter, perhaps to formalize his declaration of candidacy as head of the list in the European elections next June.
MoDem and Renaissance. The parties of the majority will bring up the rear. Modem supporters will meet on the last weekend of September, as every year, in Guidel in Morbihan, for their summer universities. There will speak, in addition to the president of the party, François Bayrou, and its general secretary, the deputy of Paris Maud Gatel, various members of the government. A week before the presidential party itself holds its summer universities, from October 6 to 8, in Gironde in the city of Bordeaux. City of the new Minister Delegate for Public Accounts, Thomas Cazenave.
