If he had denied having intentions to resign in March, a departure from Aurélien Rousseau is likely, while there is also talk of a reshuffle.
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ATurélien Rousseau, the director of cabinet of Élisabeth Borne, would seriously consider leaving Matignon, as Point had already revealed it in March. “It is not abnormal that the question [du départ d’Aurélien Rousseau, NDLR] could arise after a very intense year at Matignon during which many texts were voted on in Parliament – in a context of relative majority – and the pension reform carried out, “said Tuesday evening to AFP the entourage of the First minister. However, “there is no precise timetable or fixed date” for this departure, it was added. According to the daily The worldAurélien Rousseau should leave Matignon on 1er July.
This 46-year-old senior official was appointed on May 17, 2022, on the proposal of Emmanuel Macron. A historian by training and enarque attached to the Council of State, Aurélien Rousseau had previously directed, including during the health crisis, the regional health agency (ARS) of the Île-de-France region.
READ ALSOWho is Aurélien Rousseau, Elisabeth Borne’s chief of staff? From this experience, he drew an essay, published in September, The injury and the rebound, in the black box of the State in the face of the crisiseditions Odile Jacob, to tell “how the things of the State are played out, the decisions are made”.
“Alexis Kohler’s counterpart”
Coming from the left, he previously worked in the cabinet of the former mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoë, then with the Socialist Prime Ministers Manuel Valls and Bernard Cazeneuve.
Aurélien Rousseau, “he is the counterpart of Alexis Kohler”, the powerful secretary general of the Élysée, noted a majority deputy on Tuesday. He occupies “a decisive position on the way in which you organize the debates and the arbitrations”, but this position is “exhausting, it is a permanent steamroller”. “And with this climate of tension” in the Assembly, “it plays on people’s ability to hold out over time,” she added.
READ ALSOElisabeth Borne and the “icy fluid” Aurélien Rousseau is married to Marguerite Cazeneuve, pension specialist and former adviser to the Élysée. His father-in-law is the deputy Jean-René Cazeneuve, rapporteur of the budget.
While reaffirming his “confidence” in his Prime Minister, Emmanuel Macron recently expressed his difference with Elisabeth Borne on how to counter the far right, which has revived speculation about a reshuffle.