By proposing an “alliance” with the Republicans, the Head of State calls on the logic of the parties but does not manage to expand, for the time being, his majority.
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The outstretched hand ended in a door click. Surprising? After having failed this summer to form a coalition with the Republicans (LR), Emmanuel Macron’s call to an “alliance” with the right -wing party, launched during its interview on France 2, Wednesday, October 26, does not arouse more enthusiasm. Even before this plea, Eric Ciotti, deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes, who covets the presidency of the LR, had swept the idea issued three days earlier by the former president Nicolas Sarkozy. “We are not in the bargaining with the government,” said Olivier Marleix, head of the LR group on Wednesday, in the Assembly. “The question has been decided. He has been making the belly dance for us and months (…) We are not Macron-Compatibles,” abounded Thursday, on Public Senate, the Senator of the Vendée, Bruno Retailleau, who also brigs the head of the party. An unambiguous refusal.
Despite the right -handed accents adopted by the Head of State, through the values of “order” and “merit” that he claims, the representatives of the party founded by Nicolas Sarkozy underline the divergences that persist between them and Macronie. At the same time, within the government’s left wing and the majority, this call explicit to get closer to the destabilizing right. “We will not win the next elections by being an ersatz of modernized LR”, sighs a minister, relativizing a simple “tactical” which would aim to “sow mess at LR”. “An alliance with LR is neither possible nor desirable,” says deputy Sacha Houlié (Renaissance), president of the Law Commission.
Within the entourage of the Head of State, we are still satisfied with this outstretched hand as a stage, which can make its way, before a hypothetical dissolution of the National Assembly in the event of blocking . Pragmatism, we hear in the mysteries of the government, which could finish fracture the Republicans while making it possible to pass the reforms. The Head of State would also prepare for the risk that a censure motion may sooner or later pass with LR voices and overthrow the government. “He plants seeds”, interprets Barbara Pompili, deputy of the presidential majority and ex-minister of the ecological transition, who imagines that ministerial portfolios could be offered to elected officials of the right.
“confession failure “
Curiously, this opening to LR is based on the parties system that Emmanuel Macron aims to overcome. “Our Republic is now taken in the rets of apparatus games,” he wrote in Revolution (XO), in 2016. The head of state combines Gaullian posture, saying that he is ready to use the referendum or the ‘Article 49.3, and game of alliances, which he had previously delegated to Elisabeth Borne. “It is an admission of failure, analyzes Bernard Sananès, president of the Elabe survey institute. The coalition strategy on a case -by -case basis does not work, it acts that it takes a political agreement to have a stable majority . Macron hopes to force LR by addressing the opinion of the right, which does not like disorder and the motions of repeated censorship. “A bet which, according to the sounder, is unlikely to succeed.
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