Two days after his re-election, the President of the Republic already has his eyes fixed on the next ballot scheduled for June 2022.
It’s a meal that is likely to make some teeth cringe. Two days after his big victory in the second round of the presidential election, Emmanuel Macron and his relatives are targeting the next legislative elections. With the aim of forming a great central force against the blocks of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marine Le Pen. To do this, negotiations and negotiations are going well to distribute the constituencies to the various chapels of the majority.
According to information from Parisian , the president would have gathered this Tuesday several tenors of the macronie for a lunch at the Elysée. If we refuse for the moment to any comment, a participant confirms to the Figaro the holding of this meeting around the Elysian table. Among the latter, Richard Ferrand, President of the National Assembly, Christophe Castaner, boss of LREM deputies or one of his political advisers Thierry Solère. A meeting where neither the president of the MoDem François Bayrou nor the former prime minister Édouard Philippe were present.
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During a political office on Tuesday, Édouard Philippe considered not to be “bound by no deal when he’s not around the table” in the face of rumors claiming that he would target a group of 30 to 40 deputies in the future presidential majority. If the former Prime Minister was indeed present during Emmanuel Macron’s victory speech on Sunday evening at the Champ-de-Mars, he would not, still according to The Parisian, neither called nor sent a congratulatory message to his former boss. What a relative of the President of the Republic confirms half-wordly, indicating that he has not “not aware” of any exchange between the two men since the second round.
Horizons “surprised” that none “discussion” does not take place
While the distribution of constituencies is the subject of laborious negotiations between LREM and Horizons, a member of the management of Horizons indicates his astonishment on Tuesday evening: “We asked for a discussion with the allies of the majority, but we are surprised that it did not take place.” “No meeting, in any format has been stopped», Regrets another member of the Phillipist party. The former host of Matignon also opposed the principle of a single majority party. This scenario is not “not possible”he declared in front of his troops, preferring a simple common banner bringing together the formations of the majority.
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In an interview at Figaro published on April 18, the mayor of Le Havre had already defended the diversity of Macronist parties. He had thus taken up a famous sentence of François Bayrou, when the centrist had refused in 2002 to merge the UDF into the UMP: “If we all think the same thing, it’s because we don’t think anything.” The President of the National Assembly, Richard Ferrand, multiplies the consultations with the partners of the majority – he received Édouard Philippe twice on this subject at the National Assembly.
But no meeting bringing together all the components of the majority has yet been held. Time is running out, however: the leader of the Walker deputies, Christophe Castaner, announced on Tuesday in front of his troops that the candidates for the legislative elections would begin to be invested “next week”. A way to reassure elected officials eager to enter the heart of the campaign, less than fifty days before the election.