Monaco: Philippe Mettoux, appointed head of the government, distance from the background against the background of the crisis

Philippe Mettoux, French state councilor, chosen by Prince Albert II of Monaco at the beginning of June to lead his government, announced on Thursday 26 June that he will give up the position, barely a week before the date that was planned for his office, setting up internal obstacles to his mission.

“It stems from different stock markets that I recently had that negative and opposite forces are already working to make the archaic practices from the past and to prevent the mission that Prince Albert has entrusted to me”In a statement to the French press office (AFP) he approved De Kaak.

He did not want to give any details, but these comments come when the principality is shaken by a media-law battle between former family members of the prince who now fired and accused of embezzlement, who, in exchange, denounce a stranglehold of the property magnate Patrice Pastor on the rock.

This battle entered a new phase this week, with the placement in police detention of one of these former processors, Didier Linotte, former President of the Supreme Court of Monaco, and his indictment, Wednesday, for illegal interest in interest in organized gang and passive corruption.

A personality that has been detached by France

Trained at the National School of Magistrates (ENM), Philippe Mettoux public prosecutor in Burgundy and adviser to various ministers, in particular Dominique de Villepin when he was Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior. He had become a legal director and compliance with SNCF, as well as internal mediator within the company.

The Monegasque government appointed by the prince, leads the policy and takes care of the administration of this territory of 2 km² and 38,400 inhabitants through the Mediterranean Sea, where real estate is the most expensive in the world. Under the title “Minister of State”, the position of the head of the government traditionally returns to a personality that has been detached by France.

Since the death of Didier Guillaume, former Minister of Agriculture (2018-2020), the interim in this position has been provided by the Monegasque Isabelle Berro-Aaamadei, Minister of External Relations.