A signal. Or rather, a warning. The laborious vote in the National Assembly of the text aimed at protecting the purchasing power of the French and the amending finance bill supposed to take into account the new deal linked to the war in Ukraine, will leave traces within the majority presidential. Admittedly, the deputies of the Republicans (LR) seem to be more and more courted by the government every day, making the left wing of Macronie more and more feverish. Despite his bullying of the executive, LR allowed most of the texts and amendments to be voted on. The right has, it is true, many points of agreement with the program of Emmanuel Macron, which it described as a ” copy paste “ that of their candidate Valérie Pécresse during the presidential campaign.
But the art of compromise remains a difficult exercise for the deputies of the majority. The presidential party, Renaissance, accustomed over the past five years to executing government orders alone, will have shown its difficulty in coaxing the opposition on subjects described, however, within it as the “sweet” part of the program of Emanuel Macron. What about the “salty” when it comes to voting on the budget or the pension reform?
More worrying, the macronists also had to suffer the blow of anger from one of their allies. Everyone remembers the episode that took place on the evening of Saturday July 23, during the vote on an amendment tabled by the Finance Committee, aimed at allocating 120 million euros to the departments to compensate for the increase of 4 % of the Active Solidarity Income (RSA), for which they are responsible. Against the advice of the government, the amendment received the endorsement of the LR, the National Rally (RN), but also of thirteen deputies from Horizons, the party of Edouard Philippe, a support of the self-claimed head of state “loyal but free”.
Partners put “in front of the fait accompli”
“There was a double signal in this vote. In substance and in form », emphasizes Laurent Marcangeli, head of the Horizons group at the Assembly. On the merits, the former mayor of Ajaccio intended to make the government hear that it had to review its way of dealing with “territories”. Parties of elected officials, close to mayors and located in the center right of the political spectrum, Horizons does not intend to feed the unease between Emmanuel Macron and the city councilors dating from the first five-year term, in particular due to the abolition of the tax on dwelling. The recovery of public accounts cannot be done on the backs of local authorities, it is stressed within the “philippist” party.
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