These political figures expected at the turn in 2023

• After an intense election year, the year 2023 does not have direct elections on the agenda (for now).

• But several political figures have a bit of work to do this year.

• State of play for five of these personalities who are playing double or quits this year.

Under the tree, some political figures have received more homework than gifts to start 2023. Even if there are only senatorial elections this year, the challenges are many as the Assembly without a majority leaves everyone under threat of a dissolution that can happen at any time.

looked at the situation of five ministers or parliamentarians who are playing big this year, sometimes even in the coming weeks.

Olivier Faure, saving his skin (litic)

For the first secretary of the PS, the year is off to a flying start.

The party congress takes place at the end of January, in Marseilles, and the vote of the militants from January 12th.

At the head of the party since 2018, Olivier Faure defends the alliance with the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes), either with environmentalists, communists and especially the rebellious.

This is where the shoe pinches for some of the socialists, whose nose twists every time an LFI moves an ear.

If he wants to save his place, Olivier Faure must convince that the aspiration to unity of the left-wing electorate takes precedence and that the PS

will eventually pull out of the game. But for opponents of the deputy of Seine-et-Marne, it is because of him that the PS fell below the 2% mark in the presidential election.

A few days before the vote, Olivier Faure nevertheless appears to be the favorite of the congress, but without assurance.

One thing is certain: if he loses, it will undoubtedly be the beginning of the end of the Nupes.

Elisabeth Borne, chief negotiator

If the fall was less complicated than expected for Elisabeth Borne who did not hesitate to use her right to 49.3 to have her budget adopted, the coming months promise to be much tougher since this article cannot be unsheathed just as easily for the rest of the program.

This does not necessarily mean that the dreaded parliamentary deadlock is inexorably looming, but it is now that the head of government must show her much-vaunted skills as a negotiator.

If the government can hope to count on Les Républicains for the nuclear programming law or for that on immigration – the two biggest pieces to come – its new president, Eric Ciotti, will probably want to put his stamp on it.

Above all, the right-wing party will not want to appear as an automatic auxiliary to the government.

Outside parliament, if the winter is socially hot, it will be necessary to manage the demonstrations against the pension reform.

If it is climatically cold, it will be necessary to manage the electrical load shedding.

If it's both at the same time, Elisabeth Borne's negotiating skills may not be enough.

Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, watch out for setbacks

Being a sports minister is usually not the most prominent government post.

But for the next two years at least, that will change: in addition to the traditional Roland-Garros and Tour de France – two of the biggest sporting events in the world – France will host the Alpine Skiing World Championships this year (in February, in Méribel and Courchevel) and especially the Rugby World Cup at the start of the school year.

A busy year when Paris will also be in the final stretch of preparation for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games: France has no room for error.

However, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, who came from the French Tennis Federation, is under pressure.

In recent weeks, she has been widely strolled by two of the main presidents of the federation.

Bernard Laporte, president of the French Rugby Federation, sentenced in December for corruption, refused to resign as requested by the minister, only consenting to a "withdrawal".

On the football side, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra has launched an investigation into the management of the FFF and its president Noël Le Graët, after revelations from

.

Their relationships are deleterious and the tackles are off: “We have no differences since we don't talk a lot.

So it's good, ”had tackled Le Graët during the World Cup.

Olivier Dussopt, on all fronts

He is less prominent than Bruno Le Maire, in the Economy, or Gérald Darmanin, in the Interior, but Olivier Dussopt, Minister of Labor, is one of those who has worked hardest since the start of Emmanuel's second term. Macron.

Already in the maneuver on the reform of unemployment insurance, it is he who must carry out the pension reform to completion.

He is also at the front on the immigration law, which includes a large section on labor immigration for certain trades “in tension”.

This defector from the Socialist Party will be frontally opposed to his former friends on the left and will have to find a ground to agree with the right: not easy.

However, as the pension reform should go through an amending Social Security finance bill, Olivier Dusspot could make use of 49.3 at will.

This article allows the government to pass a text without a vote, provided that a motion of censure is not adopted immediately by the National Assembly.

Mathilde Panot, managing egos

The president of France insubordinate to the National Assembly would like us to talk more about pensions than about the Quatennens affair.

She is, however, one of those, within the direction of the movement, who built this soap opera, wanting at all costs to organize the return of the deputy convicted of domestic violence.

Adrien Quatennens was excluded from the group until April but his name risks embarrassing his people from January.

Because the deputy of the North announced it: he intends to sit as non-registered.

In April, the debate on the reinstatement of the deputy from Lille promises to be epic: the interviews given by Adrien Quatennens since his conviction, completely against the line of the movement on feminist issues, have made many parliamentarians uncomfortable but also grassroots activists, who expressed it publicly.

Not threatened personally, Mathilde Panot will have to act with particular tact in this affair.

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• Olivier Dussopt

• Elisabeth Borne

• Government

• Olivier Faure

• Mathilde Panot