Legislative elections: presidential majority prey to divisions

Far from the unique formation that Emmanuel Macron would have wished, the majority is broken down between different movements which aims to obtain constituencies or even a parliamentary group. The tensions are lively with horizons by Edouard Philippe.

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While the left seems on the way to the Union, after the agreement between rebellious France and the environmentalists, Sunday, May 1, the majority of Emmanuel Macron, it is still debated. She has been trying to bring out an agreement between her various movements for the legislative elections of June 12 and 19.

It is obviously on the question of investitures that tensions are the most vivid. The list of training courses pretending to a parliamentary group in the majority, with the main claim access to public funding, lengthens for a few months.

On the right, align to act, the training chaired by the Minister of Foreign Trade Frank Riester, the radical party of Laurent Hénart, Horizons, the movement of former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, without counting the twenty future rallies From the Les Républicains Party (LR) which did not decided if they will be under the banner of the Republic En Marche (LRM), Horizons or another structure. In the center, we find the two groups depositaries of the 2017 presidential alliance, LRM and the modem. And on the left, this is also jostling with the Territories of Progress movement, controlled by Olivier Dussopt, Progressive Federation, of the former mayor (PS) of Dijon François Rebsamen, the joint ecological party of the Minister of Ecological Transition Barbara Pompili and, the latest coming, republican refoundation, by Jean-Pierre Chevènement.

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Because of their support for Emmanuel Macron, all these organizations are intended to present candidates for the legislative elections under the same banner. But the general methods are still to be defined six weeks from the ballot.

“We want [those] who will go before the French carry the same project, that they undertake to support the presidential project and the government which will be appointed. Then, the sensitivities will be able to live”, sketched, the April 27, in an interview in Midi Libre, the president (LRM) of the National Assembly Richard Ferrand, the “control tower” for negotiations. Operating to the Minister of Relations with Parliament, Marc Fesneau, member of the modem, to watch, to preserve the balances of the current majority. The latter therefore lists the various candidates and the districts referred to, without omitting to indicate their strengths and their weaknesses.

Unlike 2017, no national inauguration commission which would bring together all the components of the majority is currently planned. The “bilateral” exchanges which started in February between Mr. Ferrand, Mr. Fesneau and the various components of the majority continued the weekend of 1 er May. An agreement is in the process of finalization between LRM and the modem; François Bayrou’s centrist party would obtain a hundred investitures and the renewed of his fifty-four outgoing deputies.

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