Eager to “silence the rumours”, the President of the Senate Gérard Larcher declared on Sunday that he would “clearly” refuse the post of Prime Minister if he were to be offered a reshuffle. Speculation had flourished at the end of April, after statements deemed ambiguous.
The President of the Senate Gérard Larcher will “clearly” refuse the post of Prime Minister if he were to be offered in the event of a reshuffle, he declared on Sunday, wishing to “quiet the rumours”. “If the President of the Republic offered me to be Prime Minister, I would refuse (…) I would clearly refuse,” said Gérard Larcher (LR), guest of the Grand Jury RTL /Le Figaro/LCI.
“Being Prime Minister comes from a project that we share, from a contract that we have signed and therefore it is only possible before or after an election,” he explained.
Speculation after ambiguous statements
Speculation had flourished at the end of April, after statements deemed ambiguous: Gérard Larcher had then let it be known that “today” he would not say yes to Matignon. Asked about postponing the immigration bill until the fall, the President of the Senate considered that the migration issue is “one of the great failures of Emmanuel Macron’s six years”, pleading for an ambitious text, then why not “in a second stage” a referendum.
Regarding the recent remarks of Gérald Darmanin who accused the head of the Italian government Giorgia Meloni of being “unable to solve the migration problems” of his country, the President of the Senate considered this “outing not useful”. “Still, we should be able to give lessons, in terms of migration, I’m not sure that we are exemplary”.