Where is the “proportional” issue?
Response from a loyal president at the start of the week: “Nowhere.
"He has not actually advanced one iota since the MoDem tabled two bills in the Assembly, for the introduction of a dose, limited to departments of twelve or more deputies, for an" integral proportional »By department.
This in itself is significant, weeks go by without the decision to include one of these texts on the parliamentary calendar ...
The leader of the MoDem deputies, Patrick Mignola, intended to put the subject back on the table during a meeting of the presidents of the majority groups on Wednesday, on his agenda.
Except that on the LREM side, we let it be known on Monday that the meeting would be held… the following Wednesday, while ensuring that nothing like this had been scheduled this week.
"I have the impression that we are in a shadow theater," blows an LREM deputy.
"He has a simple strategy, which is: get out of the way!"
At the MoDem, we continue to set this objective: "To be able to register it for the week of May 10, the agenda of which must be determined by a conference of presidents on April 6."
"A calendar considered unrealistic by some, knowing that June is the deadline to change the voting method for the next legislative elections.
As for the Walkers, we are playing for time.
Following the public letter sent to him by François Bayrou a month ago, Emmanuel Macron returned the ball to the hands of Parliament.
Motus since.
“He has a simple strategy, which is:
get out of the way!
», Breaths a Walker.
The dominant feeling is that the case is folded.
"The tendency remains that we do not go there", says a leader of LREM.
But in fact, nothing is officially recorded.
On Monday, during a meeting of the LREM group's office, Christophe Castaner proposed that informal consultations be carried out with LREM deputies in each committee, this week, before a new point next week ... Believing that in the remaining time, the only possibility would be to opt for full proportional representation, he gave his personal position: “I believe that this is not the time to change the voting system.
And full proportionality would not help bring MPs closer to citizens.
»What set the tone ...
"A temptation for some to procrastinate"
But why then postpone the decision any further?
"There is a little avoidance", modestly concedes an LREM deputy.
Because politically, the case is complex.
This is a campaign promise from the president.
And a request from his main ally.
“Nobody wants to slap François Bayrou.
And they can kick in the stretchers just before the regional ones, if they have an excuse, decipher another.
If it could end and move on… ”
What strain the relations between the formations.
Among the Walkers, we are annoyed with the “die-hardness” of the centrists.
When the president of the Agir group, Olivier Becht, sensing "a temptation among some to procrastinate", believes that "it would not be correct vis-à-vis the Modem to wait" again.
“The question is: do we find a consensus, a path for the right dose of proportionality?
If we get there, we register it.
If we do not succeed… Good luck to those who will defend an abandonment.
That way, everyone will get out of the ambiguity, even to their detriment, ”adds Patrick Mignola.
Atmosphere.
