These former Macronist deputies had made the promise at the end of May.
Their new group in the Assembly, “Ecology, Democracy, Solidarity” (EDS), would be
“neither in the majority nor in the opposition”
.
Four months later, the sixteen deputies - fifteen of whom were elected under the banner of La République en Marche in 2017 - chose their camp.
They finally prefer to turn to the left of the hemicycle.
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If many predicted it, the change took place during the general policy speech of the new Prime Minister Jean Castex in early July.
Eleven members of the group voted against the confidence, four abstained, and only two voted in favor.
“There were themes that were not foreseen in his speech, such as separatism.
It is a shift more than semantic, it is a drift to the right, ”
notes Matthieu Orphelin, the group's co-president.
Ironically, the current Minister for the Ecological Transition, Barbara Pompili, was also in the process
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