Since the debacle (4.78%) of Valérie Pécresse in the first round of the presidential election on April 10, those close to Emmanuel Macron have had fun seeing some of the deputies Les Républicains (LR) looking for a “humanitarian corridor” which would lead them to the majority. The latter are numerous, in fact, to estimate that their survival in the legislative elections of June 12 and 19 depends on a rapprochement with the head of state, who has replaced the right in many of his strongholds.
Only, these elected officials, accustomed to the pyramidal organization of their party, have realized for a few weeks that Macronie lives like a nebula with multiple gateways. What frighten caciques who fear to find behind only the void and hesitate to take the plunge.
He is a deputy from the Ile-de-France, who received calls from ministers Bruno Le Maire and Gérald Darmanin before the first round. It is one of his colleagues, who discusses with his former comrade, the deputy of Oise, Eric Woerth, recently rallied to Emmanuel Macron. To each interlocutor his conditions, or his methods for the gathering, sometimes identical, often different. As if it were “parallel stables that do not speak to each other”, alarmed a deputy tempted by the adventure, but terrified at the idea of being the toy of internal rivalries in Macronie.
“A choice will have to be made”
“Emmanuel Macron is like a future bride to whom her suitors want to bring back the most full basket possible. I’m afraid there will be a lot of old boys at the end of the wedding,” jokes the deputy (LR) of Pas Pas-de-Calais, Pierre-Henri Dumont.
Tuesday, May 3, Nicolas Sarkozy was received at the Elysée. The predecessor of the Head of State is also one of these intermediaries. Since he enjoined his camp, during the inter-tours, to “respond to Emmanuel Macron’s call for a rally”, the “ex” is perceived within LR as a potential lifeline by his presumed ability to negotiate a coalition with Macronie. The only problem: his successor, who recently dreamed of founding a single party and a single group in the National Assembly, does not want to hear of such a scheme. No question of depending on an extra force.
The older supporters of Emmanuel Macron know this well. On April 20, on the sidelines of the Council of Ministers, Bruno Le Maire, Gérald Darmanin and Sébastien Lecornu agree: none of them buys the idea of a Sarkozyist coalition. The three men, all members of the Republic on the Move (LRM), prefer to try to convince right-wing elected officials to jump directly into the boat of the majority. An adviser nevertheless tempers the differences with Nicolas Sarkozy. “The two scenarios come together, wants to believe this source. There would be a central group and a buttress on the right made up of constructive LRs, who vote for the main texts but without blending into the majority group. » Even.
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