After Together’s disappointing score in the legislative elections, the presidential majority will have to come to terms with the opposition so as not to give in to immobility. A concept already well understood by former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe, who called on Tuesday for the creation of a “grand coalition”, in particular with Les Républicains, even if it means “finding new profiles” to take the lead. “We must listen to what the voters have said” and “take them seriously”, urged the mayor of Le Havre on BFMTV, describing the political situation as “unprecedented”.
By granting only a very relative majority to Emmanuel Macron, without any other force being able to decide on its own, the French “told the leaders of this Assembly that they had to work together (…) to develop what can be a government, what can be a stable leadership”. “We are going to have to form a large coalition (…) with people who spontaneously do not want to work together, with people who are committed to different programs, with people who have criticized each other”, continued the president. d’Horizons, primarily targeting his former family, LR.
With her, “I see that it is possible to imagine a frank, direct discussion, a compromise which will suppose that some go back on a certain number of positions”, he insisted again, while adding that this “could also exist with (…) perhaps the socialist group, the ecologists”.
“The compromise, it was he who embodied it”, tackle LR
Several LR officials have closed the door to any “logic of pact”, including the boss of the party, Christian Jacob, who immediately evacuated the proposal of the mayor of Le Havre on Tuesday after a political office. ” Certainly not. The balance sheet of Édouard Philippe is a sad balance sheet”, criticized the Republican, castigating the “calamitous management of public finances” of the former resident of Matignon. “The line of compromise, it was he who embodied it”, stormed the boss of LR again.
“It is a call for everyone’s sense of responsibility, within the majority as well as within the opposition”, pleaded in return Édouard Philippe, who will be consulted on Wednesday by Emmanuel Macron in the same way as all the other heads of gone. “If we want to enter into a logic of coalition, it may be necessary to find new profiles”, he estimated, while specifying that it was not up to him “to define the standard profile of the future Prime Minister “. But, he continued, “there would be something unreasonable in giving the impression that we are not fully drawing the consequences of Sunday’s results”.