A sentence that may surprise, after months of judging La France insoumise and the National Rally “outside the republican arc.” Before the government, meeting on Wednesday in a seminar to discuss the follow-up to the Saint-Denis meetings, the president changed his tone.
“We must involve all political forces, including the extreme ones. We must not allow them the luxury of being on the balcony,” said Emmanuel Macron, according to information from Parisianconfirmed by BFMTV.com.
Gearshift
Before launching: “We must recognize the result of the vote. The republican forces are those that the French have chosen. We must not boycott them, but confront them face to face.”
These comments have all the ingredients of a presidential change of course. For months, the Head of State and his Prime Minister continue to avoid any discussion with the RN and the LFI, considered “outside the republican arc” and each time dismissed consecutively.
Understand: these are not circumstantial agreements in the National Assembly with these two movements that represent no less than 164 deputies in the chamber. And what a pity that the distinction does not make nuances between rebel and RN parliamentarians with often diametrically opposed votes.
LFI and RN were not initially summoned to the Saint-Denis meeting
In July, when launching his “great initiative” to regain political control, the Head of State announced that he was proposing “to the political forces of the republican arc a series of meetings to determine projects on which to advance together.”
Without explicitly naming them, Manuel Bompard, number 1 of La France insoumise and Jordan Bardella, head of the RN, were excluded from the demonstration in Saint-Denis. The Elysée finally changed its mind by inviting them. Emmanuel Macron even picked up his phone to personally call Marine Le Pen’s right-hand woman.
But should we see this as a real change of doctrine on the part of the executive? On the government’s part, we are putting things into perspective.
“Our idea is to dialogue peacefully and find issues on which we can agree, as we have wanted to do since the beginning of the second five-year term,” explains a participant in the government seminar.
“We put them in charge of their responsibilities”
Would the president have also learned his own lessons? Last July, Emmanuel Macron reformulated Élisabeth Borne, who had accused the RN of being “an heir to Pétain.” We must avoid fighting the party with “words from the 90s” and “moral judgments,” responded the Head of State.
“You will not be able to make millions of French people who voted for the extreme right believe that they are fascists,” the Elysée tenant had once again criticized.
For him, Marine Le Pen “will come (to power) if we do not know how to respond to the country’s challenges and if we establish the habit of lying or denying reality.”
“By putting them around the table with us, we force LFI and RN to take a stand and demonstrate that, even when we propose solutions that are good for the country, they do not accept them. We confront them with their responsibilities. They are quite intelligent,” an advisor wants to believe. ministerial.
Source: BFM TV
