Moment of self-satisfaction or useful transition discourse before starting a new phase of the quinquennium? Despite the absence of major announcements, the intervention of Emmanuel Macron on Sunday was rather welcomed in the ranks of his majority, where the wait on the post-crisis sites is particularly strong. "On the ground, many actors thank the State for its management in support of the self-employed, for partial unemployment or assistance to the poor," emphasizes Sacha Houlié, deputy La République en Marche de la Vienne. I do not see why the President could not congratulate himself on it. ”
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When Prime Minister Edouard Philippe seems to reap the benefits of managing the health crisis in public opinion, "it was useful to have the great leader who comes to mark the point," abounds a leader of the presidential party. "It was he who took risks, who put the system and the administration under tension, in particular by announcing the date of May 11 for the start of deconfinement." Hence the need to praise his own action and to announce good news to the French. For Sacha Houlié, the speech also makes it possible “to start the revival” and to “prepare reinvention” even if the new priorities promised remain to be defined. “We don't have to deny anything. We have two years left which must be useful for rebuilding after the earthquake, and for a lasting change to the model ”, argues Hugues Renson, vice-president of the Assembly and co-animator of the association En Commun within the LREM group.
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"I do not feel a great enthusiasm" in the ranks of MPs Marchers, however nuances a parliamentary adviser of the majority. “We have to admit that the“ new path ”is very wide. You can't clearly see the light at the end of the tunnel, the vision, the goal. ” The social democratic collective, which brings together a dozen deputies from the left wing of the LREM group, welcomed the intervention of the Head of State, calling in a statement published Monday for a referendum on the proposals resulting from the climate convention .
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The call to "work and produce more" launched by the President of the Republic also challenged some elected officials of the majority, especially those who have the ear of the boss of the CFDT, Laurent Berger. “This is a point of attention , notes an executive from the LREM group. Does it mean that it validates the orientations of the Institut Montaigne or is it a question of finding an activity that creates wealth? We'll see what's behind it. ”
Members of the government, who sieged in the morning radio and television broadcasts Monday morning to decline the presidential speech, tried to clarify its contours. "It means that the greatest number of French people must be able to find a job," said Bruno Le Maire, on France Info, when his colleague from Action and Public Accounts, Gérald Darmanin, led the way. to negotiations on working time at company level. "There is no desire to reopen the working time site," says a high-ranking majority, regularly received at the Élysée. It is a question of putting the primacy on the resumption of the activity. Where some advocate decrease, we advocate a resumption of activity through work, which remains the macronist mantra. ” With the aim, he adds, of sending a political signal with a view to reducing the use of short-time working.