Flashback. When he returned to Bercy, on February 17, 2015, Emmanuel Macron went to the piano. François Hollande’s Minister of Economy, who needs to pass his nerves, plays in a raging way, under the desolate eyes of his wife Brigitte. Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Manuel Valls sparked article 49.3 of the Constitution to have the bill voted “for growth, activity and equal economic opportunities”, said ” Macron law “. This text – the first defended by the 36 -year -old Minister who makes his parliamentary weapons there – aims to unlock sections of the economy, from the extension of Sunday work to the liberalization of transportation in coach. The Socialist Party (PS) nevertheless has an absolute majority in the National Assembly but part of the rebellious deputies intends to vote against a project deemed too liberal.
Emmanuel Macron is furious. By dint of persuasion (and seduction), he had managed to adopt all the articles of his text, one by one, chaining the debates in session or in commissions, five hundred hours in total. It is within the premises of the “Special Commission” responsible for examining the text, and around the factory of this law, that macronism has been forged.
Convinced of the need to revalue the Parliament, the young minister wanted to demonstrate that it was possible to transform by building majorities of the project, going beyond the right-left divide and the related, deemed sterile postures. “My conviction is that many things could be done in the intensity of a parliamentary debate, that is to say in detail, explaining measure by measure”, he himself theorized in the Documentary as either Macron, by Pierre Hurel, broadcast in May 2017 on France 3. “The war of position became a movement war, he continued, things move, people end up thinking … I saw debates if Open. “
” If it works, I will call you Socrates! “
At the time, the deputies of the “special commission” who worked alongside him are seduced by the process. It is in this cenacle that Emmanuel Macron, still a novice in politics, meets those who will later become his first “apostles”, his affids: Richard Ferrand (who is then the general rapporteur of the Commission), Christophe Castaner , Arnaud Leroy, the three future macronist ministers Stéphane Travert, Brigitte Bourguignon and Joël Giraud, or Corinne Erhel (now deceased) and Jean-Jacques Bridey, future pillar of the majority La République en Marche (LRM), who invites the Minister of François Hollande in his constituency for his very first political meeting, March 19, 2015, in Fresnes (Val-de-Marne). “If it works, I will call you Socrates!” Says the deputy Denys Robiliard, enthusiastic, after a working session on the “Macron law”.
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