Emmanuel Macron put the monkey on the shoulder of his opponents for a few days, before flying away for a week of international summits. The head of state appeared on television, Wednesday June 22, to deliver a speech in an attempt to break the impasse into which the narrow relative majority he has in the National Assembly has led him. This “new thing” in the history of the Ve Republic implies, according to him, “collectively learn to govern and legislate differently”made of ” compromise “ and of “dialogue”.
Only, after two days of consultations with the leaders of the main parties, the tenant of the Elysée has not yet found the martingale which will allow him to fill the hole of forty deputies which he lacks to vote. texts. He therefore called on the ” responsibility “ of “all political forces” by asking them to decide between two options: to sign “coalition contract” with him or build “text-by-text majorities”.
On the merits, Emmanuel Macron ensures not to give up the ” consistency “ from “clear plan” which was his during the presidential election, during which the French granted him “a clear legitimacy”. He just emphasized the need to drive a “responsible project, i.e. credible and financed”which will only be supplemented “neither by more taxes nor by more budgetary and ecological debt”. “This is why our country, more than ever, needs ambitious reforms to continue to create more wealth, more work and innovate more”said the head of state.
Elisabeth Borne absent from the president’s speech
So much for the appeal of the foot to the 61 deputies of the party Les Républicains (LR), who represent the key to a possible majority. And this, even if he refrained from referring to his promise of pension reform at age 65, desired by the right.
Without modifying his project, the President of the Republic throws the ball back to the opposition. “It will be necessary to clarify in the coming days the share of responsibility and cooperation that the different formations of the National Assembly are ready to takehe pointed out. Join a coalition of government and action? Commit to simply vote on certain texts? » The second option seems the most credible, it is estimated at the top of the State; a “culture change” policy cannot intervene overnight, after sixty years of exercising power based on presidentialism and majority rule.
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