On the set of the RTL-Le Figaro-LCI Grand Jury, the spokesperson argued for the new culture of “compromise” promised by Elisabeth Borne.
It is indeed a change of method that the executive wants to make. In line with the general policy speech delivered by Élisabeth Borne last Wednesday, Olivier Véran has made himself the champion of the new culture of “compromise“, supposed to animate the power for the next five years. On the set of the RTL-Le Figaro-LCI Grand Jury, the government spokesperson said he wanted to find common ground with all the deputies, with the exception of those from La France insoumise and the National Rally.
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“I prefer to consider that we have 400 deputies inNational Assemblyfrom Communists to Republicans, with whom we can build project majorities“, Thus indicated the former Minister of Relations with Parliament, recently appointed spokesperson. “The government does not count on the voices of the RN to legislate and adopt texts“, he still insisted.
“Stance Motion”
To establish this new method a little more, Olivier Véran sketched out a semblance of a mea culpa. “I believe that what may have hurt some of the elected representatives of the traditional parties was the discourse on the new world and the feeling of degagism that may have happened in 2017. An involuntary feeling“, he acknowledged. Before adding:We have matured“, thanks to “the exercise of powerand a political situation which, today,compels you to hold out your hand“. “Politics is about loving people. As we love people, maybe we need to show them more“, he further declared, listing the French, but also the intermediary bodies and the local elected officials who should now be “consult further“.
A step forward on the part of the government, and a way, above all, of placing the responsibility for the failures to come on the oppositions which will not play the game. Starting with the Nupes, whose Olivier Véran castigated the “posture motion“. A reference to the motion of censure tabled by the intergroup and expected Monday in the Hemicycle. “We reach out, they want to turn their back on us“, denounced the spokesperson, affirming that this initiative “will not succeed“, and that it will be the occasion for the union of the left to realize, “finally», «that they do not have a majority in the National Assembly, since they will bring together a maximum of a quarter, perhaps less, of the deputies“.
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“I’ve been wondering for years if he’s pretending not to understand or if he doesn’t understand. (…) He continues to contest vote after vote the choice of the French“, again criticized Olivier Véran. Calling the situation “problem“while must take precedence”general interest“. “The nobility of public policy is to focus its attention, its energy and its efforts on improving daily life for the French.»
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