He had not yet spoken that the members of his majority applauded him wholeheartedly. Parliamentarians may have a multitude of reproaches to make against the president, the magic always operates in his presence. "The president is not only the head of state, not only the creator of En Marche!, He is the founder of what we are politically" , underlines the deputy of Paris Lætitia Avia. Tuesday evening, Emmanuel Macron received his troops for more than two hours, calling them to "unity" and "responsibility" . "We succeed together or we fail together", he said to the 300 deputies La République en Marche, MoDem and Agir together at the Élysée Palace, referring to "a difficult moment in national and parliamentary life", at five days from the start of the examination of the pension reform in the Assembly.
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