Receiving the Renaissance, Modem and horizons deputies at the Elysée on Thursday, the Head of State recognized that “the sites in front of [them] are immense and give a little vertigo”.
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Day and night. As if everything had changed in the space of five years. Completed the triumphant attitude of Emmanuel Macron and his troops, in 2017, after their double victory in the presidential election, then in the legislative elections, when this young president promised to “transform” the country to forced, thanks to his overwhelming absolute majority in the National Assembly. At the time, the opposition was reduced to silence, condemned to look at the elected officials of the “new world” dictate their tempo, their vision and their politics.
Today, the configuration is quite different. “We are faced with a very atypical political situation,” admitted Emmanuel Macron, Thursday, July 7, during the reception of the majority deputies, gathered, for the first time in this new five -year term, at the Elysée. And for good reason: if he has managed to be re -elected, the disappointment of his camp in the legislative elections forces him to radically change with tone. No more question of ignoring parliament. Now that he has only a relative majority, the Head of State enjoins his supporters to be open to other groups. “You will have to hear the oppositions to work together,” he launched nearly two hundred elected officials from Renaissance groups (ex-Republic on the march), Horizons and Modem, which he had in front of him. Before asking them to “build majorities of gathering”.
While all the bills were voted with their eyes closed, during the previous legislature, the government must now find around forty votes to reach the absolute majority, fixed at 289 seats. Text by text, agreements must be found with opposition forces. This requires to maneuver in a fine way to convince deputies of other groups to vote the reforms of the executive.
“is in our DNA”
In a sort of discourse of the method, Mr. Macron explained to his supporters the recipe to “build compromises”. “We must bring opposition to the spirit of responsibility,” he said before the Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, and several members of the government. “The important thing is to be on a path that brings your interlocutors out of postures and to be consistent,” continued the one who excludes all alliance with the deputies of the National Rally (RN) or Insoumise France ( LFI).
m. Macron recalled having already been there, when he was Minister of the Economy, during the five -year term of François Hollande. In 2015, he had then fought in the National Assembly, in order to have the law adopted his name (which allowed, in particular, the establishment of “Macron cars”), by bringing together votes on different benches. A model to follow, according to him, even if this reform had finally been adopted using article 49.3. “If I founded on the march! And we are there, it is because I built a project and a law with women and men of the right and left. It is in our DNA”, he said, saying “to expect” from his troops that they manage to “build this overcoming again”.
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