2023-07-20 20:01:51
The president of the LR group, Olivier Marleix, discusses with the related deputy (LR) Meyer Habib, and the deputy (LR) Annie Genevard, at the National Assembly, July 18, 2023. JULIEN MUGUET FOR “THE WORLD”
Among the elected representatives of the Les Républicains (LR) party, the telephone rang little before the government reshuffle announced on Thursday July 20. Some have joked about “the feverish expectation on the side of Rillieux-la-Pape”, the city of Alexandre Vincendet, deputy of the Rhône and declared supporter of a political agreement with the executive. But, in reality, even the most “macroncompatible” of the elected LRs did not appear in the small papers of the majority to join the new government formed around Elisabeth Borne.
“Honestly, there’s been nothing going on about it the last few days, blows the deputy (LR) of the Alpes-Maritimes Eric Pauget. It’s a sea serpent that has resurfaced since the last presidential election, but since the departures of Eric Woerth and Damien Abad, almost nothing has happened in terms of departures. »
Mr. Abad therefore remains the last takeover on the right by the majority. Then president of the LR group in the National Assembly, he had been a very short-lived minister of solidarity between May 20 and July 4, 2022, before leaving his post due to accusations of rape which he still disputes. “I think this great example does not necessarily make people want to hustle”, had quipped, on July 18, Olivier Marleix, the president of the LR group at the Palais-Bourbon. For his part, Eric Woerth, former minister of Jacques Chirac then Nicolas Sarkozy, deputy (ex-LR, now Renaissance) of Oise, had rallied Emmanuel Macron from the presidential campaign of 2022.
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Even before the question was put to him during his weekly press briefing, Olivier Marleix had said all the harm he felt about potential poaching attempts. “There are not many candidates on the right to enter government, but it would be deeply disrespectful to just flatter the basest human instincts”had declared the deputy of Eure-et-Loir. A message as much addressed to recruiters as to possible recruits.
In the small group of ten LR deputies presented as “macroncompatible”, some felt targeted and did not appreciate the terms chosen by their leader, never stingy with a harsh criticism against the President of the Republic.
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For his part, Emmanuel Macron no longer seems to count as much as before on the right to strengthen his government, after the remarkable catches of Edouard Philippe, Bruno Le Maire, Gérald Darmanin or Sébastien Lecornu, during his first five-year term. “These individual poachings were also intended to fragment LRnotes Antoine Vermorel-Marques, deputy (LR) of the Loire. But, today, the power mainly looks at the number of deputies that the arrival of someone from our country could guarantee. »
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