2023-06-18 11:41:00
Source AFP Richard Ferrand calls on the “republican” majority and opposition to “reciprocal concessions” © AFP/Archives/Alain JOCARD Published on 06/18/2023 at 11:41 a.m.
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Former President of the National Assembly Richard Ferrand calls on the Macronist majority and “all political forces that define themselves as Republicans” to “reciprocal concessions”, at the risk of “democratic suicide”, Sunday in Le Figaro.
This very close to Emmanuel Macron believes that “a moment of national unity must be sought on a few objectives, each keeping its identity and putting off its future ambitions for a few years”.
A year after his re-election, Mr. Macron, who only has a relative majority in the Assembly and must find circumstantial allies for each text, could he strike an agreement with Les Républicains, like some in his camp suggest? “All the political forces that define themselves as Republicans are partners of the President of the Republic. We need collective regroupment and peaceful debates”, answers Mr. Ferrand, himself from the Socialist Party.
“Those who bet on their sole ability to harm the action of the president and the government are scuttling themselves. This applies to Republicans as well as to reformists from all walks of life,” he also warns, scratching “those who imagine preparing the sequel without to act, in the present, in the service of the country”.
“Reciprocal concessions are the price of the survival of democratic parties. Apart from this strategic choice, it is democratic suicide”, he warns again.
Asked Sunday on France 3, the boss of the deputies LR Olivier Marleix was ironic on the call of Mr. Ferrand, considering that “it has been six years since the president tramples national unity”. “The President of the Republic, to be sure of being re-elected, pushed the French to the extremes (…) And now he says: + faced with this chaos that I have created, come to my rescue +”, squeaked Mr Marleix.
Politics “is not a matter of grub”. “We want to remain an alternative,” insisted the deputy for Eure-et-Loir.
Beaten in his constituency of Finistère in the legislative elections of 2022, Mr. Ferrand has not spoken publicly since, but remains active behind the scenes, in an unofficial advisory role to the president and the government.
The name of this walker from the first hour, however, returned to the press recently as rumors of a reshuffle, replacing Elisabeth Borne at Matignon.
“I’m more of a veteran than an aspirant,” he observes in a pirouette. Adding: “When it comes to rumours, anything that flatters the ego should be viewed with caution and recognition.”
18/06/2023 14:50:16 – Paris (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
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