“In 2017, I left the Socialist Party because it was unable to cross its borders. Today, I am leaving LREM for exactly the same reasons. This is why his departure from the presidential party justifies the member for Val-d'Oise Aurélien Taché, this Saturday evening, in an interview delivered to the JDD.
I am leaving @enmarchefr. My explanations in @leJDD https://t.co/DVALzgg2HH
- Aurélien Taché (@Aurelientache) May 16, 2020This figure from the left wing of La République en Marche, which he had joined in 2017, also confirmed on Twitter that he had left the party.
Opening only "to the right"
“I am a leftist. To remain so, I must leave LREM, ”he insisted with our colleagues, deploring in particular that the“ opening ”of the party was“ done only to the right ”. Former ministerial collaborator of Sylvia Pinel then of Emmanuel Cosse in Housing under the previous five-year term, Aurélien Taché stood out for his singular voice within the majority, often marked by his leftist convictions.
“We have seen this on the issue of welcoming refugees, which remains a great disappointment for me. Same thing on freedoms: how can a progressive movement vote the anti-breakers law ", also questioned this Saturday the one who was rapporteur on the" integration "aspect of the asylum-immigration law.
The elected official, historic walker, also believes that the majority party is not capable of making "a profound software change", so that "the next world does not look like the one before and worse" . Aurélien Taché also criticizes the movement for no longer having "the credibility to be able to create collective dynamics" and regrets that it "was not able to build an ideological corpus, to find convergence with other parties or allies within society ”. He also puts forward the isolation of the party which "has not stopped repeating that there was no salvation outside (of it), of refusing to vote everything that came from the oppositions".
Integrated into a ninth parliamentary group?
Affirming wanting to “carry the popular ecological and solidarity aspirations”, he specified that he would “most certainly leave the parliamentary group”. Earlier this week, his name had leaked, appearing on the list of deputies likely to join a ninth group, which should see the light next week in the National Assembly. This parliamentary group, launched on the initiative of Matthieu Orphelin, another defector from La République en Marche, should bear the name Ecologie Démocratie et Solidarité. It could be made up of several of the discordant voices, - including that of Aurélien Taché - who have been heard since the start of the coronavirus crisis, notably concerning the StopCovid tracking application.
But, this Saturday evening, the member does not confirm wanting to join the group in gestation. "I will not be in the opposition," said Aurélien Taché, however. "If there is a choice, I will be in the majority because I want to be constructive and get results for the French," he insists. Its announced departure from the group drops the total workforce to 295, against 314 in June 2017. And LREM could well lose the absolute majority (289 seats) if some of its members actually joined the potential 9th group at Palais-Bourbon.