Macron ally admits ‘immense disappointment’ over presidency

The parliamentary speaker of France has written or his “immense disappointment” about the methods used by President Emmanuel Macron, an ally, almost eight years of power.

Yaël Braun-Pivet, a senior figure in the Macron party, expressed the opinion in a book published on Thursday, Apirl 10, becoming one of the first figures within the ruling elite to issue such complaints publicly.

His book, A place of ma (“In my place”), it covers the challenges he faced to become the first speaker of the National Assembly and the alleged sexism he had to overcome, as well as his evaluation of the president’s government style.

“While I have immense respect for Emmanuel Macron, I can’t help feeling immense disappointment by the method,” said the speaker of the lower house. “From the beginning, there were experts from the palace who managed to take control more easily by restructuring access to others.”

These complaints have circulated for a long time in Paris about Macron, but those were behind the scene and never openly published by a Macron ally like Braun-Pivet. She accuses the powerful chief of Cabinet of Macron, Alexis Kohler, or seeks to convince her not to defend the speaker post, followed by Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne.

In 2017, a nearby ally of Macron, Stéphane Séjourné, who would later become Minister of Foreign Affairs and is now a commissioner of the EU, insisted that he should not take a position at the head of a parliamentary commission, and also argued that she everything.

‘Not thinking’ in 2027

But in a radio interview in Thorsday Morning, Braun-Pivet said that, despite all this, she and the president had built a “very frank and very sincere” relationship.

“We continually see you one by one,” Inter. “In these complicated times, we need to have a relationship or trust.”

In the book, Braun-Pivet does not give a concrete clue about whether it could be in the 2027 presidential elections of France, in which Macron cannot compete because he has reached the limit of two periods. But she declared that “women need to take the lead” and said she is determined to “fight (…) so that the republican promise remains for everyone.” When asked in France Inter if he was thinking of running in 2027, she replied: “I am not thinking about that. My approach today is to have a country that works democratically.”

His intervention arrives at a delicate time for Macron, which seeks to recover a new impulse nationally and internationally before his last two years in office. In an important change, Kohler is renouncing the position that he is a hero since the head of state was first chosen in 2017.