Rome was not built in a day.
The "common house" that Emmanuel Macron calls for to expand his majority around an LREM-MoDem-Agir pole, in view of the presidential election of 2022, either.
Witness the great rally organized this Tuesday, September 15 in the morning in the cozy lounges of the Hôtel de Lassay, at the National Assembly, where the three groups of the parliamentary majority met for the first time ... without however dispel doubts on both sides.
Sign of the symbolic character, and oh so political, that the executive wanted to give to this meeting, the presence of Jean Castex, but also of fifteen members of the government, to mark the call for mobilization and gathering.
Except that basically, after the defections of some LREMs in recent months, and the departure of others to the centrist partner of the Modem, the unit is still very fragile.
This anecdote bears witness to this, when Patrick Mignola, president of the MoDem group, takes the floor to evoke "the need to strengthen ties […] in a principle of efficiency and also of openness".
But no sooner has he finished speaking than the internal loops of the walking deputies cynically comment on this outstretched hand: "He talks to us about widening, but it is he who spent his summer in poaching", pings, very bitter, one of them.
"In short, it was laborious"
On the platform, Jean Castex nevertheless endeavored to fulfill his mission, speaking of this intergroup in the Assembly as "the sign of the return of a united parliamentary majority", and the "marker of an overtaking dear to the President of the Republic ”, before inviting everyone to seize the recovery plan in the territories and discuss the health crisis of Covid-19.
“It lasted two hours, without knowing in the end how it will all go in terms of organization.
In short, it was laborious, ”sighs an LREM MP.
“We are presented with this gathering of the three groups as something natural, but for us, it does not go without saying”, comments a counterpart.
“I remained hungry and I remain at this stage not very reassured, goes even the deputy Anne-Christine Lang.
“It was essential to be able to meet, but I regret that the subjects of method were not discussed,” she explains.
However, I would like someone to tell me where our political axis is today, but also how we speak to the right, to the left ”.
Quite a program, even presidential.