She is not prudish in her approach. Frédérique Dumas was one of the first MPs to leave the presidential party in 2018. Four years later, the former MP decided to write about her experiences in the book ‘Ce que l’on ne veut pas que je vous dire. Récit au cœur du pouvoir’ (Narrative at the Heart of Power), published by Massot éditions on Thursday March 31. In her new book, of which Libération has published the first chapters, Frédérique Dumas does not hesitate to criticise members of the government. First and foremost, Emmanuel Macron. She reproaches the President of the Republic for his “brutality” and his “lack of ideas” and even accuses him of “rigorously disempowering all political opponents”.
The former MP for the Hauts-de-Seine département also called Macronism “technocratic progressivism that is driving us against the wall” and that is led by the “commander-in-chief” Alexis Kohler, the secretary-general of the Élysée Palace. Frédérique Dumas also criticised former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe for being “odious, self-assured and dominant to the end”. Not to mention the “psychorigid and paranoid” Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer. As for Françoise Nyssen, the former culture minister ” realises not much”, she wrote, who will not run in the parliamentary elections and calls to vote for Yannick Jadot.
Gabriel Attal, the government spokesperson, and Aurore Bergé, the deputy leader of the LREM faction in the National Assembly, are not spared either. As Libération reports, Frédérique Dumas calls them “Underwood junior”, alluding to the US series House of cards, in which a pair of politicians kill a journalist, among others, in order to gain power.