The municipal must be "for us the moment of rebound", argued the Republican Olivier Marleix. If LR is "rather in a position of strength" because very anchored in the territories, the member for Eure-et-Loir, guest of the "Talk Le Figaro " Tuesday, is also aware that his political family has "everything to lose and little of things to win. " Rather confident about the outcome of the election, he recalled that the right and the center now run two-thirds of the cities with more than 10,000 inhabitants. "The challenge is already to keep this situation," judges the first vice-president of the LR group in the National Assembly.
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At the heart of the countryside, ecology. He explains this green breakthrough by the question of global warming which is omnipresent and the urban density which induces according to him "an aspiration to find green in our cities" . Nevertheless, he procrastinates on the sudden greening and the escalation of the parties: "We must keep right", he assures, recalling that it was "the Gaullists who created for the first time the Ministry of the Environment under Pompidou" . And the elected to add: "the mayors of the right are not in a posture", but work daily for the quality of life of their citizens, according to him.
"A strategy of tension"
Beyond the municipal ballot, Olivier Marleix holds the Head of State responsible for the climate of violence that reigns in the country, accusing him of "dividing a lot and listening to little". The elected representative stresses that the role of a president is to ensure social peace and to listen more to the intermediary bodies. "He had rediscovered after the crisis of" yellow vests "that mayors could be used for something," he says. He is also rediscovering that Parliament is also useful for something, at least its parliamentary group. " If France is going through such a social crisis and if things are so flammable," it is not A random". The elected LR denounces "a strategy of tension created and assumed by the president with the RN", adding that to feed this tension, there is "a real strategy of radicalization". And Marleix to invite the President of the Republic, " if there is to be an act II in his five-year term ", to get out of this strategy and to speak with everyone.
Olivier Marleix is also the deputy who attacked the Castaner circular before the Council of State, forcing the Minister of the Interior to review his copy. “We would have had an interior ministry which would have presented us with a completely truncated result, which is unacceptable in a democracy . " He drives the point home: " This reveals above all how hard the government is and the anchoring of LREM weak ".