The government is becoming like the centrists, of whom François Bayrou said in 2021: bringing them together is “like driving a wheelbarrow full of frogs: they jump all over the place”. After Gérald Darmanin, who last weekend organized his own political comeback and is quite clearly targeting the 2027 presidential election, after Gabriel Attal, who thunderously announced the ban on the abaya at school (admittedly in the presidential line), it was Clément Beaune who got into it. Exceeding the scope of his function, the Minister of Transport said, in an interview published by L’Obs, in favor of surrogacy: “This measure is not on the program, the president told the French . Should we, however, go further in the future and legalize surrogacy? I think so, yes. »
Clément Beaune takes a few precautions. He explains that this possible legalization will not take place before 2027, the end of the mandate of the Head of State. But, with this announcement, he oversteps a ban set by Emmanuel Macron, opposed to surrogacy. In November 2021, Éric Dupond-Moretti reminds us firmly: “GPA is a red line that we absolutely do not want to cross. “However, six months ago, Clément Beaune was already cutting this line cautiously. In Elle magazine, he talks about his homosexuality and, to a question about GPA for same-sex couples, refuses to comment. “I fail to have a balanced and reasoned political opinion,” he replies. However, Beaune wonders and leaves the door ajar: “I had an intuitive reluctance to the idea of ??surrogate mothers, but I have around me many couples who have children by this route, whose happiness is undeniable. and exemplary parenting. »
These language precautions do not prevent some turmoil within the majority. A few months later, during the debates on the legalization of medically assisted procreation (PMA), Olivier Véran advances a little more. The Minister of Health tries to calm the fears of all those who see in PMA the prelude to GPA, but he lets go, fatalistic: “If the GPA must come in five years, ten years, fifteen years, because society is changing , this is how. “Last March, Olivier Dussopt went there frankly. In the magazine Têtu, the Minister of Labor is clearly in favor of a “supervised” surrogacy.
These successive statements made less noise than the interview given by Clément Beaune to L’Obs. It is that we attribute to the Minister of Transport, guardian like Dussopt of the left wing of the majority, political ambitions, in particular the town hall of Paris in 2026. They can explain his freedoms with the government line. Isn’t he talking about topics that the capital’s LGBT and green electorate may be sensitive to? Thus, a year ago, the deputy for Paris (for a month in 2022) spoke out in favor of regulating private jets to fight against CO2 emissions. A small transgression which had earned him a public reframing from Christophe Béchu, Minister of Ecological Transition, but also from Emmanuel Macron in person.
Clément Beaune is advancing slowly. He only wants, he assures us, to advance the debate. Asked Wednesday on CNews, the Minister of Transport explains that the question of GPA must be discussed well in advance, which explains his position in L’Obs. “You have to think and make arguments,” defends Beaune. We must also be careful, he says, of the unity of the majority, despite its exit on the GPA. In L’Obs, he thus criticizes Gérald Darmanin, assuring: “Before thinking of 2027, let’s think first of 2023 and 2024.” And 2026?
