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Proportional: Bayrou keeps the pressure on Macron but refuses to "blackmail" him

2021-02-07T13:34:24.537Z


Guest of the RTL-Le Figaro-LCI “Grand Jury” on Sunday, the High Commissioner also sketched out a “Marshall Plan” after the crisis.


This is called “

carpet bombing

”.

The technique is well known to François Bayrou.

It consists in grasping an idea;

to hammer it as much as possible - sometimes until exhaustion;

and hope she ends up being heard.

Since his interview with

Figaro

, in which he demanded that proportionality be submitted to the French by referendum, the president of the MoDem has not given up on this subject, which he has made one of his political markers.

Quite the contrary.

Guest of the RTL-

Le Figaro

-LCI

“Grand Jury” on

Sunday, the mayor of Pau once again defended this project, which has been close to his heart for a long time.

This is one of the campaign commitments (of Emmanuel Macron)

.

[...] It was part of our alliance

“, He first recalled.

How to put pressure on the Head of State to accede to this promise before 2022?

"

I do not blackmail,

" swept the centrist, refusing to threaten to leave the fold of the majority if he was not heard.

Read also: Is Macron reneging on a promise by burying the proportional?

However, and although he says he has "

no desire

" to "

argue

" with the President of the Republic, the High Commissioner for Planning has maintained the pressure on the executive.

We cannot continue like this, with a Parliament from which the voters are detached, no longer participate in the elections and, when they have a difficulty with a decision that is going to be taken, only have one thing to do: demonstrate, go towards blockades, strikes and violence,

”he warned.

According to him, there is indeed a cruel lack of representativeness in the National Assembly, which he considers intrinsically linked to the method of voting for legislative elections (majority in two rounds).

Evidenced by the almost anecdotal presence of the National Rally on the benches of the Palais Bourbon.

Marine Le Pen, she was in the second round of the presidential election (in 2017).

She made 35% of the votes.

And she returned a month later with six deputies!

One percent of the seats!

He choked.

"

I think that played a very big role

" in the appearance of the movement of "yellow vests", he added.

Hence his insistence on trying to win his case before the end of the five-year term, even if it means having to make certain unnatural alliances to achieve this.

I only lead fights when I think there is a chance to win them,

” he said.

It is in this logic that he recently wrote an open letter to the Head of State.

His letter has not received a response to date, but it has won the consent of a large part of the political class: “

from the extreme left to the extreme right, passing through the center and environmentalists

”.

Only the traditional parties that are the Socialist Party and the Republicans refused to join, sometimes causing some internal turmoil in their camp.

"

It is a subject on which the alliance of citizens is desirable

", he claimed, inviting all the forces of the country to overcome their reluctance and to unite for "

a democracy finally alive

".

"

Everyone will have, in one way or another, to take responsibility,

" he said.

Towards tax increases to finance long-term debt?

Convinced that Emmanuel Macron gave in to the easy way, and that he was guilty of a "

denial of democracy

" by multiplying the citizens' committees drawn by lot, François Bayrou estimated that the Covid crisis should allow France to get off on the right foot.

And to lay the foundations for a better future on a democratic, but also economic level.

He thus called for a new “

Marshall Plan

”, separate from the recovery plan, in order to rebuild the productive apparatus.

The High Commission for Planning will also “

propose

” an “

approach

” in this direction “

from next week

”, with “a horizon of at least three years”.

Debt project that the French will have to "

be able to finance

" in the long term.

Even if it means one day through tax increases or taxes, especially for the better-off?

"

Why not

", he outlined, without however defining precisely the categories concerned.

4000 euros per month, for me it is the middle classes.

[...] I am not saying that it is the rich

”, he slipped

Source: lefigaro

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