Government solidarity
The corridors of the headquarters of the regional council in Strasbourg rustle with the anecdote which has had its small success and still delights a few ears. During the signing of the State-Region planning contract, were present Jacqueline Gourault, ex-officio Minister of Territorial Cohesion and Relations with Local Authorities, and Brigitte Klinkert Minister “Alsatian” potential candidate but not yet declared. It is said that just before the private interview with Jean Rottner, Jacqueline Gourault ordered the prefect of the Region, Josiane Chevalier, to bar the entrance to the office of the president to Brigitte Klinkert. With the display of such complicity, Klinkert no longer needs enemies.
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Macronism trial
Nadine Morano wants to show that she keeps her files up to date. She readily emerges from a column published in Le Monde on May 15 … 2017 by elected officials from the right and from the center calling on their political family to “respond to the outstretched hand” by Macron. Among the signatories welcoming the appointment of Édouard Philippe to Matignon, several elected officials from the Grand Est: Jean Rottner, then mayor of Mulhouse, Arnaud Robinet, mayor of Reims (and candidate for the 2021 regional elections on the Rottner list), and Benoist Apparu, mayor from Châlons-en-Champagne.
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Prime Minister
This support Philippe, Rottner still assumes it today in his own way. He says he regrets his departure from Matignon, and maintains less good relations with Castex, of whom he does not think very well. Especially since the latter came to Colmar in support of the European Collectivity of Alsace. “Philippe who was sometimes stiff in the budgetary discussions, he did not let go of them like that but he fulfilled his function of Prime Minister with clarity”. Transmitted to the former tenant of Matignon and to the current one.
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Distances
On Brigitte Klinkert’s Alsace list, the presence of Sylvain Waserman, in 8 e position, MoDem deputy from Strasbourg, and vice-president of the National Assembly, did it go without saying? Not really. In the election of Jean Rottner at the end of 2017, the elected representative assured that he continued to be at ease within the regional majority. But it is rumored that the Parisian injunctions would have led him to nevertheless join the list of the national majority.
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” Even more “
Now is not the time for negotiation. But to distance his opponents as much as possible. Even (or especially) those ideologically closest. As soon as he hears the name Klinkert, Rottner sees red. “From today until the evening of the first round, we must do our utmost to mobilize, be in the lead, and that the question no longer arises of an alliance with LREM”, he confided on the 30th. last April, when his candidacy was announced in Mulhouse. “Even more”: a tone that goes beyond the agreed response.
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