“There is no question of a pact, nor a coalition, or an agreement of any form whatsoever,” said the president of the right party about a possible rapprochement with The fragile presidential majority.
Le Monde with AFP
No ambiguity on Sunday, no more on Monday. Christian Jacob, the president of the Republicans (LR), repeated, Monday, June 20, the fierce opposition of the party at any idea of coalition with the presidential majority, very weakened out of the second round of the legislative elections. “There is neither a question of a pact, nor a coalition, nor an agreement of any form whatsoever,” he said at the end of the LR strategic council, arguing “a Very healthy debate “in this meeting, which allowed an” almost unanimous, ultra-majority “choice.
He wanted to reaffirm that his party was “in opposition to the government and to Emmanuel Macron”. According to him, the head of state “fractured the country like never before, he instrumentalized the extremes and put France in the situation that we know today”. “We are in opposition to En Marche !, At the national gathering and the far left and we stay on this line,” said Christian Jacob, who announced the holding of an LR political bureau on Tuesday, June 21 .
The Republicans will make by the fall “a series of proposals” on various subjects ranging from immigration education, continued Mr. Jacob, who intends to keep for his party a form of initiative, then that LR could theoretically represent the necessary extra side for Emmanuel Macron to have his reforms voted.
“responsibility”
The mayor (LR) of Meaux, Jean-François Copé, had made waves on Sunday evening, speaking of “vital government pact” with the macronist camp, “in order to fight against the rise of extremes”, and in Believing that “it is up to the republican right to save the country”, in particular on the subjects of security, public spending, secularism and state reform. “Everyone is now placed before their responsibilities at the end of this electoral disaster for the President of the Republic,” he added. For his part, the mayor LR of 7 e arrondissement of Paris, Rachida Dati, had assured on TF1: “We will be a decisive block since we are a party of responsibility.”
Macronists themselves had launched calls for goodwill, who mainly aimed at the right. Bruno Le Maire had called, on France 2, to a “compromise” of deputies around the coalition together! The Minister of the Economy – Former LR – called to “listen, to dialogue” within the new National Assembly, wishing a “new culture of government” with this perspective.
The president of the Regional Council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Renaud Muselier, also ex-LR and support of Emmanuel Macron, had defended the same line from Marseille. “We will have to find in the coming days the best ways, the best mechanisms to avoid reaching an ungovernable country at such an important time in its history,” he warned.