Olivier Marleix on Tuesday derided the “absolutely incredible circus” of government reshuffle rumors, once again ruling out any coalition with Emmanuel Macron’s camp. The “debate is completely closed”, he assures. “All that is not of much interest” judges the president at the Assembly of LR.
The boss of LR deputies Olivier Marleix on Tuesday derided the “absolutely incredible circus” of rumors of a government reshuffle, once again ruling out any coalition with the camp of Emmanuel Macron, a “totally closed debate”. “These noises of reshuffle”, “that does not interest the French. Everyone understood that there would be no big change. Nobody expects much from it elsewhere”, denounced Olivier Marleix, during his group’s weekly press briefing at the National Assembly.
“All of this is not of much interest. I cannot imagine for a quarter of a second that after losing legislative power (for lack of an absolute majority in the Assembly), which seems to traumatize the President of the Republic, he (Emmanuel Macron) is going to lose executive power” by forming a coalition with the right, swept the leader of the Les Républicains group.
“He will keep his friends in office”
“We do not see Emmanuel Macron resolving to be the president who inaugurates the chrysanthemums. So he will keep his friends in office”, he gritted. “The debate is totally closed in reality, it is made to make talkative people talk, people who have nothing to say like François Bayrou, Richard Ferrand and Jean-Pierre Raffarin”, snapped Olivier Marleix. “These noises of reorganization, it becomes an absolutely incredible circus”.
In Le Figaro, the former President of the National Assembly Richard Ferrand notably called on Sunday the Macronist majority and “all the political forces which define themselves as Republicans” to “reciprocal concessions”. This very close to Emmanuel Macron believes that “a moment of national unity must be sought on a few objectives, each keeping its identity and putting off its future ambitions for a few years”.