{"id":23114,"date":"2025-04-15T22:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T22:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/23114\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T22:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T22:15:09","slug":"look-whos-back-barnier-for-french-president-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/23114\/","title":{"rendered":"Look who\u2019s back! Barnier for French president? \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mounting a successful presidential bid after such an unceremonious end to his premiership is a long shot. The 74-year-old would need to make the case to French voters that he would be best placed to lead France in an increasingly uncertain global order despite having failed to navigate a fragmented political landscape domestically.<\/p>\n<p>Barnier ran for president in 2022, but fell at the first hurdle, placing third in his conservative Les R\u00e9publicains party\u2019s internal primary. <\/p>\n<p>The competition may be even stiffer this time around, as other centrists and conservative contenders appear to have the edge.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/harris-interactive.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/04\/Rapport-Toluna-Suivi-du-potentiel-de-vote-a-la-presidentielle-Commstrat-V1-Avril-2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poll from Harris Interactive<\/a> released last week shows Barnier enjoying less support than two other former prime ministers, \u00c9douard Philippe and Gabriel Attal.<\/p>\n<p>Within his own conservative party, Les R\u00e9publicains, looms Bruno Retailleau, who has seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipsos.com\/fr-fr\/politique-comment-bruno-retailleau-pris-lascendant-sur-laurent-wauquiez-dans-lopinion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his approval rating<\/a> surge since Barnier appointed him interior minister six months ago.<\/p>\n<p>During his interview, Barnier stopped short of formally announcing a run, but outlined what could be the basis for a presidential platform. He vowed to fight what he perceives as the French administration\u2019s \u201cpowerlessness\u201d on issues like state finances and immigration; tackle inflation; and streamline bureaucracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mounting a successful presidential bid after such an unceremonious end to his premiership is a long shot. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[14613,33,2000,299,36,38,14614,47],"class_list":{"0":"post-23114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-barnier","9":"tag-elections","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-french-politics","14":"tag-michel-barnier","15":"tag-poll"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114344291456423878","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}