After the loss of the absolute majority in the June legislative elections, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, draws lessons from the electoral sequence and announces that the budget allocated to security will be increased by 1.25 billion euros in 2023. In terms of immigration, he wants the conditions that apply to the expulsion of convicted foreigners to be relaxed.
In the absence of an absolute majority in the National Assembly, the executive says it wants to find majorities “text by text”: does this mean that you will spend the entire five-year period negotiating with the opposition?
We certainly do not have an absolute majority, but an absolute duty to act. We have to listen to what the French have told us: they re-elected the President of the Republic and they wanted a National Assembly that would support him, but with a culture of compromise. This does not mean the culture of inaction. The Prime Minister [Elisabeth Borne] has a very measured sentence. She said : “The majority in confidence, it is built. » It is by discussing with the opposition, text by text, that we will get there.
Except that, for the moment, we do not see how to avoid a blockage of the country…
On Wednesday, the head of government reached out twice to the opposition, during her general policy statement to the National Assembly, then to the Senate. Opposite, I heard Marine Le Pen of the National Rally (RN) and Mathilde Panot of La France insoumise (LFI), respond with insults. But other group bosses, apart from the majority, have said they want the country to move forward. This is the case of that of the deputies Les Républicains (LR) Olivier Marleix. Ditto in the Senate with the centrist Hervé Marseille, Bruno Retailleau (LR), and even Patrick Kanner of the Socialist Party (PS).
Apart from the two extremes, the reaction of the parties in government therefore suggests that compromises can be found. So let’s leave time to time, as President Mitterrand said.
Your favorite ally today, is it the right?
As it would be neither desirable nor acceptable to make alliances with the RN and LFI, we must find a compromise with the government parties. There are right and left. Because if their voters have probably not made the choice of the presidential majority in the legislative elections, they have not made the choice of blocking either. With them, there is the possibility of discussing many subjects on which we can find agreements.
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