Unlike others, they were mobilized at dawn. With, already, the desire to sweep away their nostalgia and their first disappointments. Lost children of social democracy, orphans of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, disappointed by François Hollande, they had followed Emmanuel Macron from 2015 or 2016, ready to start at first light. Since then, they have the vague soul. “The Left Wing”according to the established expression, this “original macronism”prefers to say the president of the executive office of Renaissance, Richard Ferrand, seeks to exist since 2017. And does not stop questioning his real influence in the face of the weight of ministers from the right and the arbitrations of the Elysée.
Its representatives are often reduced to recalling that they are an essential part of the macronist mosaic. Not always convinced. « Many of our activists appreciate our ability to find compromises with people who come from the left and the rightrecalls Cécile Rilhac, Renaissance MP for Val-d’Oise. I would like to convince myself today that there is still something possible to do in this direction. »
The 2022 re-election could have changed everything. The Covid-19 had rehabilitated the role of the strategist State, Emmanuel Macron had changed his discourse between the two rounds, promising ecological planning, and the new Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, came from socialism. On October 26, another strategy was formalized. On France 2, the President of the Republic has shown his desire to establish a « alliance » with the deputies Les Républicains (LR), to consolidate a five-year term hitherto dependent on the upheavals of a National Assembly without an absolute majority. With the support of Nicolas Sarkozy, who is trying to rally his camp to the Head of State, the plan is now assumed.
Tropism to the right
Since that day, left-wing deputies have been struggling to explain that the first cracks are appearing in the New People’s Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) after the Socialists chose not to vote, on November 4, the last motion of censorship filed by the “rebellious”, seeing there potential allies to strengthen the majority. “The recent evolution of the socialist group changes the situation”, explains Sacha Houlié, Renaissance deputy for Vienne and chairman of the law commission, who spoke about it directly with the head of state. If she recognizes that this appeal to right-wing elected officials before their congress scheduled for the beginning of December is “tactically clever”the Renaissance deputy for Loiret, Caroline Janvier, is also waiting “a hand extended to the left”.
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