12 years ago Jean-Yves Le Drian, then in the opposition, accused the government of NOTHING
As the presidency of Emmanuel Macron comes to an end, where Jean-Yves Le Drian was an important minister, it has become inevitable to note that the Breton minister, for a very long time president of the Regional Council of Administrative Brittany, arrived in 2012 in the spheres of power in Paris, did not lift a finger in favor of the reunification of Brittany.
Yet in June 2009 in Châteaubriant, Jean-Yves le Drian, then in the opposition, affirmed that it was up to the State to reunify Brittany or at least to organize a consultation according to article 72_1 of the constitution . ABP has kept the video of the declarations of the future minister made during this press conference (see the article). Shortly after, Jean-Yves Le Drian became one of the most powerful cogs in this state. Once in the other camp, what did he do for Brittany?
Minister of Defense under the presidency of François Hollande, number 3 of the government, Le Drian did not try anything, if not the clear refusal on his part of a project to create a Great West encompassing the Brittany and Pays-de-la-Loire regions during the territorial reform of 2014. We thought we understood then that Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, a socialist like him, however, was blocking any reunification. Anyway François Hollande in Brest in 2012 during his presidential campaign was very clear. In response to a journalist, he said: "There will be nothing special for Brittany".
With Ayrault gone, a new situation was set up under the presidency of Emmanuel Macron, whom Le Drian joined while retaining his post as Minister of Defense and then becoming Minister of Foreign Affairs. Whether under the governments of Edouard Philippe or Jean Castex, Prime Ministers, one from a reunified Normandy, and the other from a recreated Occitania but including French Catalonia where he comes from (he even speaks Catalan), one would have thought that an opportunity would have presented itself. But no: nothing yet, except some promises for Alsace included against its will in a Great East. Nothing has been done either to get rid of the infamous territorial reform of François Hollande.
We have witnessed a presidency-reaction which has only reacted to successive crises: from yellow vests to the pandemic... So the reunification of Brittany fell like a hair on the soup. The state has had other fish to fry. Besides, power is less and less a place of action, a place where we consider the future, democratization, social justice or prosperity, but much more in addition a place of reactions to the street, to scandals and to crises. It is a daily government that faces a people and has peoples who are increasingly rebellious and increasingly restive. In this context, Le Drian did what he was asked to do: sell weapons. He even did it with some success. Certainly Rafales fighter-bombers, but also 70-ton Leclerc tanks, one of the best tanks in the world. Saudi Arabia is using these tanks and other French-made weapons in its war in Yemen where so many innocent people are being killed. Sorry Mr. Le Drian, that's also part of your balance sheet.
As a result of unbridled immigration, the most conservative currents, the most Jacobin, are about to come to power in France. The army will then be sent to the suburbs, but not only. It will also be sent to Corsica, the West Indies, and New Caledonia where, after the last referendum, which was a grotesque farce worthy of the elections in Russia, violence will inevitably return.
Once in power, the ultra Jacobins will ban much more than the tilde, much more than Breton first names. The administrative regions will simply be abolished for a pure and simple return to the departments under the reduction of the territorial millefeuille. The gwenn-ha-du and flags other than the tricolor will be prohibited. Administrative reunification will then no longer have any meaning because there will be nothing left to reunify.
Mr. Le Drian, never has a Breton been so highly placed, and moreover within four successive governments of the Republic, never has a Breton had so much power in Paris (except for Alain Poher if I'm not mistaken) and what have you done to advance reunification? To block the base maneuvers of the Minister of National Education concerning regional languages? Or to advance the devolution of power? Breton history will remember that you missed, let's say sacrificed, a unique historic opportunity to peacefully repair a hazard from the totally crazy and unjust past concerning the partition of the country from which you come and that you claim to love.