Haro on Edouard Philippe. François Bayrou and Gabriel Attal both targeted the former Prime Minister on Sunday, February 2, guilty of crime of the speech. His fault? During a meeting in Bordeaux on January 26, he pinned the impossibility of initiating structural reforms by 2027 in this fragmented assembly. “We will not do anything decisive in the next two years,” said the candidate declared to the next presidential election.
His two “friends” of the central block responded vigorously. “I do not share this point of view, says Gabriel Attal at JDD. I obviously see obstacles, especially parliamentarians, but I don’t want to resolve it. The key is the people. The president paved the way for referendums, so let’s go. “François Bayrou lets himself go to a more virulent replica.” The idea that we are condemned to helplessness is for me anti-nation, “slips the first minister at La Tribune on Sundaysummoning the memory of General de Gaulle and Pierre Mendès France.
“Bayrou must deflate”
Two rhetorics as twin as lives. The Head of Government and his predecessor are erect with the opponents of resignation. Let it be said: Gabriel Attal and François Bayrou are not one to give up. “Paying the luxury of two years of immobility would be criminal for the French,” said the first. The second opposes those who “lament” to those who “seize the reality with the will and the hope of changing it”. Edouard Philippe knows which camp he is stored in. “Bayrou must deflate, mocks a relative of Le Havre. He is far from the courage of Mendès France and wants to last at all costs”.
Three presidents in the same jar, explosive cocktail. Everyone plays an inherent score here in their position. Gabriel Attal and François Bayrou seek to give meaning to their presence in the parliamentary cauldron. Stability as the only horizon is a bit short. Both continue a quest for meaning, even if it means caricature the words of Edouard Philippe. The boss of horizons! does not portray a general immobility, but the incapacity of the Parliament to adopt large -scale reforms.
“Stroller negotiator”
He too plays a personal card. Edouard Philippe refused in June to embark on the battle of the legislative elections, preferring to stay at a distance from the Assembly. Around him, we judge the welcome strategy. “Edouard must be at another level than neglector negotiator with the EPR and LR groups”, judges a loved one. The councilor has an interest in fueling the music with a helpless parliament to appear as its inverted mirror. “What I will offer will be massive,” he promised in September in THE Pointon the occasion of his announcement of candidacy for the presidential election. Is this archipelated assembly exhausting you? You know what to do in 2027! “It is a personal posture of Philippe, he wants to position himself as the credible reformer,” mocks a minister.
Laurent Wauquiez, upset partner of the common base, uses identical rhetoric. The deputy of Haute-Loire noted on January 15 on CNews that one could not launch a “real reconstruction” of the country in this hemicycle, advocating the emergence of a “radical offer”. Philippe, the break with Macron. Wauquiez, with macronism. Both bet on a contrast effect between the current situation and their program in gestation.
This positioning game does not hide a general observation in the central block. The hemicycle division into three blocks is badly lending itself to the reforming audacity. The ideological differences between the left, the center-right and the national rally prevent it. “We will not do big things, but we can do useful things,” summarizes a connoisseur of the Assembly. The search for a non-aggression pact with the Socialist Party finally implies the greatest caution. Thus, the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau is not in a hurry to transcribe into the law the European Pact on Asylum and Immigration. A former Minister EPR sums up: “Many of us will please this form of immobility to prepare the sequel without it caught hard.” From this unprecedented situation, each presidential is just a description in accordance with their interests.
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