Xavier Bertrand calls on the Republican deputies to “not be on the side of the blockers”
Denouncing a National Assembly where everything “furiously starting to look like the IVe Republic “the president of the Hauts-de-France region, Xavier Bertrand, invites his political party to “not to be on the side of the blockers” during this new legislature, in an interview with the weekly Point released Wednesday.
Although asserting himself in firm opposition to Emmanuel Macron, the disappointed candidate for the internal primary of LR in the fall of 2021 affirms that “the subject is not whether this five-year term will be successful for Mr. Macron, but whether it will be useful to the French”.
Since the start of the legislature, the atmosphere has been electric in the hemicycle between the majority and the opposition. During the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, an article of the bill on monitoring and health security was notably rejected at the end of the evening, by 219 votes against 195, thanks to a conjunction of votes from the deputies of the RN, from a majority from those of Nupes and a handful of those from the LR group.
“Look at the Assembly, it’s all starting to look furiously like the IVe Republic ! »retorts Mr. Bertrand in his interview, before warning: “ Take care that the French do not think that parliamentarians have become the priority while they themselves are suffering. »
For him, “ no question of having the slightest complacency with regard to extremes”when French policy made faced with two risks: that of a major political crisis, but also that of immobility”. He estimates that, “without a start from the Republican right, [l]has victory [de Marine Le Pen] in 2027 is no longer a hypothesis, it is a very strong probability”.
As for who should take the helm of LR next fall to succeed Christian Jacob, Mr. Bertand pleads that his party “ fa[sse] room for young people or to the generation of elected “thirties” Of r : “To rebuild ourselves, we have to bring up a new generation. Our responsibility is to ensure the transmission. »
« And then it is not a question of choosing this fall who will wear our colors in the next presidential election “, he launches, while the president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, Laurent Wauquiez, embodying the right leg of the party, is approached to take the post.