According to the historian specialist in French rights Gilles Richard, the party, where “two ideological lines oppose”, must operate a “political clarification”, at the risk of imploding.
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Where do the Republicans (LR) now live? Less numerous in the National Assembly from the last legislative elections, the sixty-two right-wing deputies paradoxically form a group in a position to switch the votes, coming to be qualified by some of “kings”.
They nevertheless found themselves more than once trapped by their own fluctuating strategy towards the relative majority-voting a blow with her, then against her. The national rally managed to embarrass them on Monday, October 24, by supporting the censorship motion deposited by the Nuts. Only opponents not to join their voices, LR deputies have in fact appeared as allies of the majority.
Approach to the December Congress which aims to designate the next party leader, Gilles Richard, historian and author of the work History of Laws in France (1815-2017), returns for Le Monde on The urgent issue, according to him, that LR operates an ideological clarification in its ranks, at risk except that the party is completely soluble between macronie and “the nationalist right identity”. The president of the French Society of Political History considers that in the absence of line coherence, LR deputies are in particular to be lost in their own game “.
What do you think of the “constructive opposition” strategy established by the 62 LR deputies in the National Assembly? Are they truly in a position of strength?
Under this new legislature, right -wing deputies can have a “pivot” role in the hemicycle, by changing the voting balances between opposition and presidential relative majority, on certain texts. But in reality, they are rather in double position of weakness and that should not arrange in the coming months.
First, the coexistence and expression of different political lines will pose more and more problems of voting coherence as the next texts of the government will arrive at the Assembly. Like the difficult justifications already experienced since this summer on certain votes, these next dilemma of positioning will potentially place LR deputies more in embarrassment vis-à-vis their electorate.
Then, despite their “pivot” group position in the new composition of the assembly, it must be remembered that their group has melted at 62 deputies and that they are not sure to keep these same seats in the event of dissolution; Hence their position of fragility.
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