While some local elected officials Les Républicains (LR) are calling for working with Emmanuel Macron after the right-wing berezina in the presidential election and deputies could switch to the presidential majority, the executives of the Les Républicains party met this Tuesday, April 26 to dot the i’s again and reaffirm the official line. No question of allying with the majority or the extreme right, the party will remain independent for the battle of the legislative elections.
The right must carry its own voice and counterbalance the power of Emmanuel Macron. This is the majority position of the party caciques.
The deputies invested by LR for the legislative elections will therefore have to commit in writing to sit in an independent group in the assembly.
Party leader Christian Jacob says:
” We cannot be Les Républicains and a presidential majority; we can’t be Les Républicains and Reconquest! ; you can’t be Les Républicains and Horizons; we are Les Républicains, an independent group. Double membership does not exist. »
Faced with calls from mayors and presidents of LR regions to work with the re-elected president and the many deputies who are thinking about it, it was necessary to clarify, believes Mayor Gilles Platret:
” There may perhaps be individual poaching, but in any case, here, this morning, things have been said: there will be no compromise. We remain firmly in opposition. The situation is much more complicated than in 2017, it’s not worth telling stories, but it’s when you’re weak that you have to be intransigent. »
But even within this inner circle of the right, some do not agree. Like former primary candidate Philippe Juvin:
“ Governing with Emmanuel Macron? I want the governing parties to work together. »
The current president of the LR group in the Assembly, Damien Abad, also abstained from voting on Tuesday’s clarification text. Rumors lend him desires to enter the government.
LR promises a “constructive” opposition
Five years after 2017, calls from the foot of Emmanuel Macron are still shaking the right, which fears a hemorrhage within its troops. Even more after the 4.8% of Valérie Pécresse in the presidential election.
In 2017, François Fillon had made 20%, and Les Républicains obtained 101 deputies. This time, they will probably be much less.
So, in an attempt to survive the legislative elections, the right is betting on local roots. She affirms her independence, but assures that she will be ” constructive “.
” If certain measures go in the right direction, we will vote for them “says party leader Christian Jacob. Pension reform, for example.
But will there be a political space for the right between Macronism and the far right, which emerge strengthened from the presidential election?
Valérie Pécresse failed to loosen this vice. And for the legislative elections, the left is also in ambush, this time probably united.
So, a former LR, already gone to Macronie, sneers. For PACA region boss Renaud Muselier, Les Républicains looks like a “ sect “which goes straight” towards collective suicide “.
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