A quick call to round angles. Emmanuel Macron picked up his phone last Thursday to communicate with Jordan Bardella, according to information from BFMTV.
On the menu of this exchange of about fifteen minutes: “the magnitude initiative” desired by the Head of State that will materialize in a meeting this Wednesday at the Saint-Denis Legion of Honor school with all the political forces in the Parliament.
Put folder with the RN
A true symbol for the head of the Jordan Bardella National Rally who passed the high school exams at the prestigious institution, according to what is remembered the parisian. This defeat should make it possible to address numerous issues, from purchasing power to the crisis in Niger, including the school. The president even raised the possibility of organizing referendums.
What hope is there of trying to reduce the pressure three weeks before the return of the deputies to the National Assembly and future budget debates in the autumn that promise to be chaotic? Relative majority obliges.
The maneuver also has the advantage of being discreet with the movement: initially, the Élysée did not want to invite the RN, just like La France was unsubmissive.
A referendum on immigration is very unlikely
The president of the far-right party took advantage of this exchange with the Élysée tenant to push the idea of a referendum on immigration and security. The MEP thus detailed to Emmanuel Macron his tour of the police stations after the riots to convince him.
However, the option of a large immigration consultation remains highly hypothetical. Despite Elisabeth Borne’s reluctance and after much turmoil, the immigration bill should be submitted to the National Assembly in the coming months.
Marine Le Pen’s group in the Bourbon Palace can, however, count on the request of the number one Republican, Éric Ciotti, who will promote the same idea this Wednesday at the table.
Second request of the right arm of the former presidential candidate: referendum on purchasing power. The RN, which had made the fight against inflation one of its campaign pillars in 2022, could once again promote one of its main proposals: the temporary abolition of VAT on 100 basic necessities.
“A Serious Exchange”
Until now, the executive has always put aside this idea. “We will never get it back because consumers will never see its color. Distributors will get the margin back,” the Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire judged at LCI in April 2022.
“It was a serious exchange,” however, says a relative of Jordan Bardella.
The president’s gesture, which had to fall first on the courier service of the president of the RN, which until now did not have Emmanuel Macron’s direct number, had all the more force since others had not been called.
Contacted by BFMTV, the national coordinator of La France insoumise, Manuel Bompard, and the head of the communists, Fabien Roussel, indicated that they had not been contacted by the Head of State. I’m not sure Wednesday’s meeting will smooth things over: Nupes has announced that he wants to boycott the dinner that will follow.
Source: BFM TV
