Opposition Offices, Palais d'Aurelis
1 April 2020, 20:00
"What do you mean Ayrault is as popular!?" bellowed Michel Kligenberg. He was in the Opposition wing of the Palais d'Aurelis and the bellows echoed in the meeting room of the shadow cabinet. No one said anything. One finally piped up...
"Well...Michel, Ayrault is pretty straightforward..." began Shadow Foreign Minister Pascal Allizard. Kligenberg said nothing. He just threw a tennis ball across the room. The rest of the shadow cabinet said nothing.
"I cannot believe that the public is so stupid that they would allow Ayrault to be as popular as Baschet. He's half the politician she was," Kligenberg responded. "Say what you want about that woman, but she was effective."
There was a long pause again. '
"You know what, Ayrault has to have dirt on him from the times he was the leader of a union; there's bound to be at least someone in it that hates him," Kligenberg said angrily. "Aides, you get on that right now. In the meantime, we are going to try and find a way to make this government look bad on immigration if it's the last thing I do."
The Christian Democrats continued on for the better part of two hours trying to figure out ways to attack the new government. The switch had them empty of ideas. Ayrault seemed too...normal...for anything to have popped out yet. Even the backbench deputies were tight-lipped.
