Despite a small score in the first round of the ballot, the right-wing party could obtain a key role in the next legislature by getting, or not, with the presidential camp. But at the cost of discord in its ranks.
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The ballotive tomorrow follow each other and look alike in the Les Républicains (LR) party. A sort of ritual with ballet air executed to the millimeter by the frames who know all the gestures to perfection. Now accustomed to national defeats, the party first counts its soldiers who fell in combat, is delighted to have saved more than the predictions let him imagine, then meets to try – vainly – to suffocate the umpteenth divisions to come .
Monday, June 13, the day after the first round of the legislative election, did not escape the rule. First of all because the party, which is only the shadow of itself, has certainly suffered a historic defeat (11.30 % of the votes) -its lot for a few years -, but saved the furniture counts Back of the catastrophic result of the presidential election (4.78 % for her candidate, Valérie Pécresse). And if they are only 73 qualified in the second round, according to LR’s accounting, against more than 200 in 2017, candidates who remain standing are more likely to resist than during the previous ballot. The right has the hope of saving its figures and keeping a group of around sixty deputies.
Then because, as usual, the party brought together its strategic advice to discuss the continuation and the orientation to be given. However, once again, the right formation may well tear itself apart, under the cover of a facade unit. Thus, with a potentially greater than expected group and above all a hypothetical majority relative for macronie, LR could have, despite its narrowing, an unexpected central role in the next legislature.
“correct the texts “
Within the party, we readily imagine a government forced to negotiate foot with him to have his texts vote. The opportunity, explained on Monday Christian Jacob, president of LR, on the sidelines of the strategic council, to be “a determined but useful opposition”. “Macron will have to listen and will no longer direct alone,” imagines the former deputy of Seine-et-Marne. Who specifies that the right could become a “force of proposal” capable of “correcting the texts, of moving them” and “to reform the country”.
A vision that risks, however, of not being to everyone’s taste. Officially, the members of the strategic committee present on Monday, with the exception of the defeated vice-president in Saône-et-Loire, Gilles Platret, all agreed. Still, a certain number was missing, which could not express themselves or give their opinion. Among the absent, the president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, Laurent Wauquiez, or the outgoing deputy qualified for the second round in the Alpes-Maritimes, Eric Ciotti. Dedicated to play an important role in the future of their party, the latter two may not accept that the parliamentary group in the National Assembly votes anything with Emmanuel Macron.
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