The Keeper of the Seals pleads for “common sense” and underlines the possible agreements with the party to the flame on justice and security.
This is the question that must now be asked by the presidential party, which no longer has a total majority in the National Assembly: how will it be able to govern? What forces will he have to deal with? On BFMTV on Sunday evening, the Keeper of the Seals, Éric Dupond-Moretti, offered to answer. Opposite RN MEP Thierry Mariani, he raised the possibility of “moving forward togetheron certain texts, such as those devoted to justice or security.
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“Rather than criticizing, for example, the justice record, we will see you, and I say this without boasting, at the foot of the wall“, thus declared the member of the government to the elected marinist, affirming that “it is at the foot of the wall that we see the mason“. “Sometimes the amendments are presented by the thousands to block the system, is that what the French want? I think not“, he continued.
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According to Éric Dupond-Moretti, it is now a question of doing with the results expressed by the French. And so to move forwardwith a lot of common sense“. “It is at the National Assembly that we will see, and that our compatriots will see, how we are trying to move forward together“, he thus affirmed.
A posture already criticized by rebels, and which may seem surprising, as the Keeper of the Seals has made the fight against the RN one of his main political battles. Invited to RMC on Monday morning, Stanislas Guerini has also qualified his remarks. The Minister of Public Service, re-elected in his constituency of Paris, instead called for “negotiate and not only with the Republicans, but with all the benches of the hemicycle, (and) all those who will find an interest in advancing the reforms that are good for the country.» «The Nudes is very heterogeneous, I believe that with each other, yes, when the texts are good, we can find majorities“, he also affirmed, specifying that “we are not in the business of making some kind of government contract with the RN or with anyone“.
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For his part, the RN mayor of Perpignan, Louis Aliot, confirmed the approach “constructivethat the RN group could adopt. He cited an example of this:the purchasing power package– first text expected at the Palais Bourbon this summer. “We may need to include measures that we want, for example the reduction of VAT“, he thus proposed, believing that “if tomorrow the future government accepts amendments that make it possible to move in this direction, I am convinced that my fellow Members will make the effort to vote for these things“. And warn:But we will not do anything that goes against what we have developed during this election.»
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