“For the right, the noose is stuck, while Emmanuel Macron tries to make him take responsibility for the ban.”

2024-08-29 12:00:00

Representatives of the Republicans, Bruno Retailleau, Annie Genevard and Laurent Wauquiez, next to the Elysée, in Paris, August 28. JULIEN MUGUET FOR “THE WORLD”

IThey refuse the tea or coffee offered to them, take a simple glass of… also water. In the green room of the Elysée, the leaders of the right, Laurent Wauquiez, Annie Genevard and Bruno Retailleau, received, Wednesday August 28, for the second time by Emmanuel Macron, who extended his consultations. A passionate exchange, but more difficult than the previous one, while the President of the Republic, who received the nomination of Lucie Castets (New Popular Front) in Matignon, is putting pressure on the right to participate in a government coalition , too easy “legislative agreement” which he was asked to accept in July, in exchange for support in Parliament.

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“If you don’t want to come to the government, you blame me for electing a left-wing person to Matignon”suggested the president. “The choice of the Prime Minister is your responsibility”reformed the leadership of Les Républicains (LR). But when the three leaders of the right insisted Mr Macron that he accepted the importance of the measures proposed in them. “pact”It is time for the president to leave, hiding behind his role as judge. “Certainty”meet Mr. Wauquiez as he goes.

For the right wing, the noose has softened, while Emmanuel Macron tried to make it responsible for the ban. “Wauquiez is stuck”The president said on Monday to a political official received at the Elysée. “You’re trying to put us in a syringe”acknowledged the boss of the LR senator, Bruno Retailleau. Because Mr. Macron’s long term is drawing out his consultations, building more LR to enter a government could be costly for his voters.

A boat on the water

For the right, the narrow line crest: by setting a set of “important things” (revaluation of work, firmness on immigration, combating the waste of public funds, etc.), has been tied up in them. “legislative agreement”Republicans don’t want to be seen as an institutional mess. But while Laurent Wauquiez is working to rebuild the political space with a view to the 2027 election, he believes that he is not able to be on a boat that takes water and goes directly to the ice he cannot run again in three years. “We want to keep our freedom”emphasized Mr. Retailleau, according to which the Union will be the evidence of the return of “at the same time”, in “big”.