Like a little perfume of freedom. For the return of the Renaissance deputies, the elected representatives of the presidential majority have hinted at the desire for independence and want to make their own score against the Government heard.
Far from the image of the godillots deputies of the previous legislature, Aurore Bergé, the new president of the group, has also warned on the podium.
“Most are never acquired”
“The heart of the implementation of our project is the majority. But a majority is never acquired,” he explained during the launch of the event from Louan-Villegruis-Fontain, a town in Seine-et-Marne.
The deputies know that they are all the more in a position of strength to negotiate with the government since Emmanuel Macron only has a relative majority in the National Assembly.
If in the previous mandate the group was -rarely- divided on certain bills such as the asylum-immigration law, the executive will not be able to do without the vote of a few recalcitrant deputies in this five-year period.
“We no longer want to accept everything and nothing”
The parliamentarians re-elected last June also returned to the Palais-Bourbon in a different mood.
“We always agreed with him during the previous mandate. We all owed him our choice. There we fought like the devil to return to the Assembly and we no longer want to accept everything or anything”, confides a deputy of the presidential majority.
The very risky government finance bill should be the first chance to score points with a likely amendment to a superprofit tax. If Elisabeth Borne and Bruno Le Maire were divided on the issue during the summer, Emmanuel Macron tried to get out of the controversy by proposing on Monday to support “a European contribution mechanism”.
“This tax at the European level will take time when we have to do it very quickly. And it is very symbolic for the French,” advances a deputy, a finance specialist, however, without really believing that this amendment can be adopted.
“No response from the slingers”
The parliamentarians, however, aim not to cross the Rubicon. “We are not here to make a to return slingers,” argues an elected representative from Ile-de-France, referring to Socialist deputies at odds with François Hollande during his five-year term.
The executive also watches over the grain. According to information from Parisian, a group of deputies will thus go to Bercy to exchange directly with Bruno Le Maire and Gabriel Attal on the first drafts of the budget, made up in particular of Daniel Labaronne and Charles Sitzenstuhl. However, discussions must be very cordial. The two parliamentarians, from the right of the party, are appreciated by the Minister of Economy.
But, anxious to leave a little oxygen to his elect, it is not about opposing certain symbolic measures such as the bill to constitutionalize abortion. If the head of the Modem, François Bayrou, has already made his reservations heard and Emmanuel Macron mentioned the “trauma” that abortion represents, the deputies want to move forward on the issue.
Let some oxygen
Beyond this issue, the Head of State has already opposed the extension of the term to access abortion last autumn and winter, which had also been the subject of a confrontation between him and Christophe Castaner, then head of the majority. However, the former Minister of the Interior stood firm, supported by the deputies, and finally managed to get the text approved.
This is enough to give hope to Sacha Houlié, the president of the Legal Commission who introduced a constitutional bill last August to allow foreigners to vote in municipal elections. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin is “strongly opposed”.
“Make yourself heard without bothering us and pass on the texts… I have the impression that we are going to have big headaches when we haven’t sat down for two months”, sighs a ministerial adviser, before wishing luck to… Aurore Bergé.
Source: BFM TV
