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The turbulence caused by the adoption of the immigration bill, voted for by the National Rally, but not by certain elected representatives of the majority, was not erased by the interview with Emmanuel Macron in “C à vous” on France 5 Wednesday evening. The future of several ministers is dotted.
The problem remains within the majority. The interview given by Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday evening in the show C to you on France 5 was not enough to dissipate the political crisis which arose following the adoption of the immigration bill. A text considered too right-wing by the left wing of the macronie and which was not voted for by around 60 elected representatives of the majority.
While most ministers are preparing to leave Paris to celebrate Christmas, the government appears weakened and it is difficult to see how Emmanuel Macron could return to school in January with an unchanged team. On Wednesday, it was the Minister of Health, Aurélien Rousseau, who resigned while his Housing counterpart, Patrice Vergriete, former member of the Socialist Party, who no longer seems convinced of being in his place, withdrew in family to think about their future.
Morose atmosphere among parliamentarians
Clément Beaune, the Minister of Transport, also from the left wing, is not very affirmative, explaining soberly that he will have the opportunity to express himself. Ministers who, if they do not resign of their own accord, risk being ejected in any case during a reshuffle prepared for mid-January.
As for the Macronist parliamentarians, the atmosphere is not festive either. The presidents of two groups of the presidential majority, Sylvain Maillard for Renaissance and Jean-Paul Mattei for the MoDem, are also groggy by this sequence. The first saw nearly one in four deputies in his group abstain or vote against, while the second, although close to François Bayrou, abstained. Among the majority, the hangover will still linger after the Christmas feast.