“He wants to put himself on popular subjects”: Macron at the Louvre this Tuesday, at the bedside of the largest museum in the world

Another sign of times, which are those of quasi-cohabitation. On the eve of Emmanuel Macron’s visit to the bedside of the Louvre, this Tuesday, with the key to the announcements to face the degradation of this standard of French culture … The government has preventively close to any extension to come Help at the museum.

“There is obviously no question, when we build a budget for controlling public spending, to add a line of 500 million euros like that,” planted his spokesperson, Sophie Prima, on TF1 This Monday morning. “Yes, the Louvre is a concern. But you shouldn’t put everything in the 2025 budget, “it is supported in Matignon.

“What the President will advertise will be completely in the institutional and budgetary framework of which he is fully aware,” refers the entourage of the latter. Understand that the head of state has found a solution to bypass the impossible budget equation and the government creed? “There are lots of possible funding sources,” it is said from the same source, without further details.

“It only engages the president”

“He wants to put himself on popular subjects,” rebounds a ministerial advisor. The Head of State thus held a meeting at the Palais in late September, with Minister Rachida Dati and Laurence des Cars, president of the Louvre museum. Before going on site to see the damage in late November.

However, in government, we swear to be in full dark on the eve of the visit. “We are not in the loop,” said an advisor. More spicy, Sophie Primas frankly stood out from the initiative. “The Constitution is quite clear: the president presides over, the government governs, presents a budget and the parliament. So, indeed, it only engages the president, ”she decided, when asked, on TF1, if the executive would feel held by the Elysian announcements on Tuesday. In return, a relative of the president spun this comparison with a good hearing: “François Mitterrand succeeded in the Grand Louvre project with a cohabitation in the meantime” …