DECRYPTION – While the June 2024 election will appear to the majority as an important mid-term electoral test of Emmanuel Macron’s second five-year term, the Secretary of State for Europe, certain of being able to be “useful“, already has in mind the spirit that the macronist list will carry.
In the shadow of the executive heavyweights, the return to school is also being actively prepared among Macronist officials who plan to play a role in the next European elections. Ten months before the election, the Secretary of State for Europe, Laurence Boone, is beginning to send expressions of interest. Reconfirmed in her duties during the cabinet reshuffle in July, despite those who criticize her discretion, the person concerned is considering a candidacy. This would be a first for this 54-year-old economist by training, who has never run for or exercised any electoral mandate so far.
For the time being, the question of the head of the Renaissance list remains open while waiting to know the intentions of Stéphane Séjourné, the outgoing president of the Renew group in the European Parliament. Many Macronist officials believe that he would be the ideal candidate, but he still reserves his decision. “Everything about Europe interests me. I will be there…