Epilogue of a crazy week. Where we saw Macronie in all its states, while the executive was proceeding to a new phase of deconfinement, with the prospect of an economic and social shock in the background. "The majority are performing, it is not good," blows a frame.
On Tuesday, a tenth group, that of Agir, appeared at the Assembly. The right pendant of the ninth, formed a week earlier with Walkers on the left wing. Agnès Buzyn, she then hesitates to continue her Parisian adventure. "It's a mess ..." loose an elected LREM, not at the end of his troubles. Coup de Trafalgar, Thursday: in Lyon, Gérard Collomb joins forces with relatives of Laurent Wauquiez. Enough to forget that members of the government, in public or behind the scenes, are positioning themselves to "weigh", a fashionable term.
"There is uncertainty about the individual future of ministers or potential contenders for government, municipal officials who are not successful, so it is turbulent. But once the second round and the reshuffle have passed, it will stabilize ”, believes a loyal president.
Macron had little taste for parliamentary maneuvers
In this context, the delicate question of second-round alliances provoked a surge of tensions. Judging that LREM was leaning too far to the right, in Paris in particular, the left wing took out the harrows at the end of the week. This Sunday, the boss of LREM Stanislas Guerini clarifies his position in our columns. It was urgent to regain control and draw "a red line". "All of this would have been preventable, if we had put clear barriers from the start and taken responsibility for those who bypassed the party," sighs a Walker. Like Cédric Villani, always tempted to go solo…
This past electoral wave will come the time to focus on the majority and the government. At the top of the State, we can be reassured by observing that this small world does not escape the presidential lap, all placing themselves in support of Emmanuel Macron.
The multiplication of groups? “The very secessionist dimension is regrettable, by definition. But the majority are there. It is not played by one or two deputies, ”sweeps a friend of the Prime Minister. Macron, however, had little taste for parliamentary maneuvers. He said it, and firmly, at the Council of Ministers on Wednesday, saying in substance, according to one participant, that everyone "had better look at what the French need". "It was in the bazooka, heavy," reports a minister. Another deciphers: "He doesn't like that at all. He is a big fan of fractionism and rebellious. "
The need for a "new organization"
As for the unrest that is taking hold of the government ... "Any minister who thinks there is going to be a reshuffle, is agitated. It's commonplace, "tempers a majority official, when Matignon fixes the rule:" As long as the conditions of expression remain loyalty to the president, support for the majority, fortunately the debate is open on how to keep working and which way to go. It is even encouraged. "
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The fact remains that Emmanuel Macron still has a long way to go to complete the political reconstruction that he calls for and to cement his majority. "It's like growing a tree, it doesn't happen in a few months", likes to remind, in private, his ally François Bayrou.
Behind the scenes, everyone agrees on the need for a “new organization”, to “bring together more”. “The president feels that there is noise. He is fully aware that the various components of the majority must be brought together, undoubtedly animate it a little better, and set out again on this new phase of the quinquennium, "confides a relative, betting on the" positive dynamics "of his proposals for the post-crisis period: “It is never by being defensive that one progresses. But time is running out. The end of his mandate, and therefore the race to 2022, will quickly be there. One of his followers even assures him, "It is extremely counted, we have to think about the end of the quinquennium in weeks".
