Philippe Séguin is dead

[big bad fab]

Ha !
I didn't think someone would have created a topic on Séguin's death....

He is/was my boss, you know.... I mean, my remote boss, as I work in a local public financial court.

And, well, with his project of reform scratching these courts and trying to centralize all this, while dropping old missions of controlling local public bodies, he was very unpopular among "us".

We'll see now if the bill will be stalled or, on the contrary, fasten because Séguin himself was hated by many parliamentarians... now he isn't here any longer, maybe they will hasten the vote, which would be a bad thing !

And who to replace him ?

Henri Guaino ?
Bernadette Malgorn (loyal Sarkozyst and soon beaten UMP leader in Brittany) ?
Michel Charasse (some talked about him in the Constitutional Council, but Sarkozy seems to prefer a lawyer who is a friend of him) ?
Nicolas Bazire (he was Balladur's first aide in 1993-95, but he is rich now in the private sector...) ?

Christine Lagarde will be kept in the government.
Charles de Courson (to please the NC and put a real and incorruptible parliamentarian out of the Assembly...) isn't very probable.

[big bad fab]

He died quite young, but he has always smoked BIG, drunk BIG, eaten BIG and f***ed BIG.
So, not illogical to see him pass away now....

To Hash: no, I don't think Guaino will be picked, it's too early.
In fact, I was afraid of Guaino first president of the Cour des comptes after the normal end of Séguin's term, in 2012, just before the elections: Guaino, without any big post (he wanted to be EDF's president...), would have been happy to take this as a lot de consolation !

It's a pity Valérie Pécresse is from the Conseil d'Etat (it would be a faute de goût to pick her, that even Sarkozy wouldn't do, because of sociological fighting between the grands corps... or would he ):
I would have been very pleased to greet her as the new first president after her (sad) defeat in March

[big bad fab]

He died quite young, but he has always smoked BIG, drunk BIG, eaten BIG and f***ed BIG.

Mechman would've said that he prefered quality to quantity...

In Séguin's case, I'm not able to assess quality...