Difficult in times of crisis to be heard.
While the emergency is above all to stem the epidemic and that the French are almost daily suspended from the announcements of the government and Emmanuel Macron, the opposition is looking for a space.
“Frankly, it's tough right now.
Everything is crushed by the Covid
, confides an elected LR.
We cannot talk about other subjects, the French are far too worried, and in addition we are dependent on information from the government… given drop by drop! ”
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An observation shared by all political parties, confined to a simple role of observer of the actions of the Head of State.
"The time of the crisis is always the time of the executive, that's normal,"
says Bruno Retailleau.
Faced with the challenges, the president of the LR group in the Senate recalls that his party's line is that of
“responsibility”: “We have always voted for the means that the government asked us to protect the French”.
Bad manners
Special advisor to Marine Le Pen, Philippe Olivier abounds:
“The crisis has taken us out of the traditional opposition versus majority political game
.
All political forces try to be responsible and to show foresight.
As uncertain as it is, it is power that is in control. ”
A reflex of “national unity” which pushes the forces of opposition to the image Europe Ecology-The Greens to
“hold back the blows and keep the criticisms”,
assures the number two of the ecological party, Sandra Regol.
"The urgency is to protect the population",
she defends
.
Ministers spend their time keeping us away or hitting on us.
It is incomprehensible in this situation of maximum alert
Sandra Regol
However, faced with the gravity of the crisis, many politicians regret the bad manners, according to them, of the government
.
“National unity means respect for elected officials,”
recalls Christian Jacob
.
“It cannot be: 'Silence in the ranks, Emmanuel Macron is right!'
National unity cannot be decreed.
It is the direct responsibility of the Head of State who until now has been unable to do so, ”
points out the President of the Republicans.
"Emmanuel Macron is not playing the game at all",
agrees the environmentalist Sandra Regol.
“Ministers spend their time keeping us away or hitting on us.
It is incomprehensible in this situation of maximum alert ”, she
judges.
“The government is systematically trying to instrumentalize the opposition by holding meetings to show that there has been concertation, when this is not the case,
also annoys the first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure
.
I made proposals two weeks ago, such as the massive use of teleworking, that was not heard.
The government is suspicious, it is afraid of everyone. ”
With the health situation and the amplification of restrictive measures to respond to it, the opposition guesses that the obstacles to any political action are not about to be lifted.
Quite the contrary.
In view of the next presidential election, the Greens wanted to organize their primary after the next regional ones.
You still have to know when these elections scheduled for March 2021 will actually take place ...
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A puzzle that the National Gathering also lives:
“We had planned a lot of things: dinner debates, a conference on immigration… Everything is canceled
, testifies the MEP RN Philippe Olivier.
We were really starting to enter the departmental and regional even presidential campaign.
Obviously, all of this is held back.
The problem is that if everyone is demobilized, it risks cooling the machine… ”
The other political parties were waiting to hear the announcements of the Head of State on Wednesday evening to possibly change their agenda.
The Republicans have already decided to postpone their "congress of ideas" scheduled for December 5.
