Economist, pragmatic and focused on consensus. It is no coincidence that last week the member for Indre-et-Loire Daniel Labaronne, 64, was appointed last week as the new whip of the LREM group of the finance committee. Already tedious in normal times (it is the fourth incumbent since the start of the legislature, in June 2017), this role of coordinator will be crucial in the coming weeks to maintain party discipline within a group that has just split up, at a time when France is experiencing the worst recession.
“Daniel Labaronne will be someone who will be less of a problem than I am. It is rounder, ” says his predecessor, MP for Meuse Émilie Cariou, who resigned in early April, in full confinement, following repeated disputes with the other members of the commission. And this to join, in stride, the new group Ecology Democracy Solidarity formed by former macronists who register more to the left. "I never wished
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