The LFI deputy Clémentine Autain, as her colleague from the RN Sébastien Chenu said this Sunday, each on his own, “ready” to return to the voters in the event of the dissolution of the Assembly, where the government only has a relative majority.
LFI considers a dissolution “likely”
“We are ready. We not only have the ideas, the project, the applications, but we even have paper stored in case of a precipitous dissolution” to print brochures, professions of faith or newsletters, assured Clémentine Autain on Radio J.
Judging that a dissolution is “probable”, without knowing the “deadline”, the elected representative of Seine-Saint-Denis was in favor of such an option, not being “dissatisfied with the current political balance”. “I think the macronie does not have a majority to do what he does,” he pleaded.
Clémentine Autain also sees it as a way for Emmanuel Macron, who has already raised the threat of dissolution if the government were toppled by a motion of censure, “to maintain his ranks, because he is already starting to get tired, he is already starting to challenge within of the macronie”.
“You should never be afraid to go back to people,” he said.
The only RN party to advance in a poll
Same speech on the other side of the political spectrum. “It doesn’t scare us”, the deputy RN Sébastien Chenu abounded at the same time on BFMTV.
“We are ready, because we are a party of militants with men and women who want to seize power to make another policy,” added the vice president of the Assembly. “We are ready to go on the campaign trail, we are ready to run the country,” the North’s elected representative hammered.
“If the French want (…) to entrust this majority to the National Group to carry out another policy, we are not going to escape,” he insisted.
The elected deputy from the North has reasons to welcome this possible decision: the RN would emerge stronger from a dissolution of the Assembly, with 21% of the votes collected against 19.2% last June in perspective, according to an Ifop – Fiduciary survey published in the JDD this Sunday.
It would even be the only party that would benefit from a dissolution, since Renaissance and Nupes would see their number of seats stagnate (27% and 25%), or even decrease slightly for the left coalition.
The government is late
Despite these statements, the government spokesman, Olivier Véran, rejected this Sunday on France 3 the idea of an upcoming dissolution. “I don’t live in a frame of reference that would consist of giving an expiration date to the National Assembly that the French have entrusted to us,” he said.
Before hammering: “I think the French do not want (dissolution).”
The same story by the Minister of Agriculture for whom “the terms for a dissolution are not set today.” Such a decision would only be justified in the event of “an institutional blockade strong enough for us to find ourselves in a situation of impossibility,” estimates Marc Fesneau this Sunday at France Inter.
Emmanuel Macron used the threat of a dissolution in September, only three months after the legislative elections, if the opposition joined forces in a motion of censure to overthrow the Government.
Source: BFM TV
