Renaissance MPs may be done with the 2023 budget as using 49.3 this Wednesday, time is less for relief than concern. Because the lively debates will resume quickly, this Thursday, with the examination of the Social Security financing bill.
Forced to have a very large presence in the National Assembly due to a narrow majority, the elected Macronists are constantly solicited through the Telegram application: a common conversation allows the troops to gather. To the annoyance of some, who denounce a “complete infantilization”.
“It’s almost physical harassment,” irritates a deputy from Ile-de-France to BFMTV.com. “Every ten minutes we receive a message that tells us that we have to be in the hemicycle. We barely have the right to go to the bathroom.”
An insistent “calendar reminder”
It must be said that Renaissance has no choice but to defeat the impeachment of its deputies. With 170 deputies to which must be added the 51 Módems and the 30 Horizontes, the presidential majority is far from the 289 elected deputies necessary to ensure the smooth passage of their texts. Enough to push the pillars of the group to take the approach.
“Very concretely, this loop seems like an agenda reminder that tells us ‘careful, we need you in 15 minutes’. It makes us all collectively responsible,” details the group’s spokeswoman, Prisca Thevenot.
With a declared objective: to avoid any mishap. It is that the executive has kept bad memories of a summer episode. the bill about covid-19the very first of the beginning of the mandate, had I almost got rejected even before your exam begins. In question: macronistas elected in very few numbers to counteract the RN deputies who had voted on a previous rejection motion presented by insubordinate France.
The government had finally saved its text with only a dozen votes, and thanks to the absence of green deputies. What put pressure on deputies during the very sensitive finance bill.
“We knew from the beginning that we were going to end up with 49.3. And instead of saving us that, they asked us to be there every day from 9 to 3 am It is not possible. We are all very dedicated but we are not Superman”, still irritates a elected renaissance
Because the exercise is not easy and often consists of running through the corridors of the National Assembly to alternate presence in committee and in the Chamber. With, sometimes, authentic obstacle courses: certain commissions such as the defense ones are about ten minutes’ walk from the deputies’ benches.
Goldman and Vilard to relax the atmosphere
In an attempt to defuse the situation, the group is now trying their hand at humor by submitting songs like I walk alone of Jean-Jacques Goldman or even To return by Hervé Vilard to get the message across.
“These little winks help to relax the atmosphere, to laugh a little in a very tense context in the hemicycle. We even have GIF contests!” smiles Anne Genetet, vice president of the group in the National Assembly.
To smooth things out, the instruction to prioritize personalized phone calls or SMS has also been changed. There is also no doubt that only the directors of the group can ask for reinforcements in the chamber. Therefore, all MEPs in session are encouraged to ask their colleagues to come if necessary.
“We’ll get used to it,” he wants to reassure MP Constance Le Grip. “In a certain way, we are learning the configuration of a National Assembly that has not existed since Michel Rocard and that leaves little room for moods.”
There’s no room for doubt
The instruction was passed in high places several times – there are no complaints from deputies about their pace of work. The context does not lend itself to that between record inflation, gasoline shortages and social mobilization.
“The limitations we have are disproportionate to those that many of our fellow citizens suffer in their lives,” insists Sylvain Maillard, vice president of the group.
Enough to silence the growing discontent? “We all fight to be chosen. If we realize that it is not for us, we can always resign”, responds Prisca Thevenot as she acknowledges the impact of “moral fatigue”. This is not the time to send each other “fat kisses” from Carlos in the Telegram loop.
Source: BFM TV
