Established in April 2016 to support Emmanuel Macron's candidacy for the 2017 presidential election, LREM is struggling to exist and to weave its web.
"It is still a young party"
, defended Olivier Dussopt, Tuesday, on the set of "Talk Le Figaro".
"You have to keep in mind the history of parties in our country and the time taken to anchor"
, added the Minister Delegate in charge of Public Accounts.
For him, LREM has
"vocation to be the pivot of the coming majority"
,
"certainly the pillar of a presidential majority which must come together for 2022"
.
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Within it, the party must nevertheless manage very different sensitivities:
"It is not a surprise
, loose the minister.
The President of the Republic campaigned and was elected on overcoming the divisions
,
on the gathering of goodwill around his project, ”
recalls the Walker.
Dussopt wants to be clear,
"it was the case in 2017, it is the case today and I hope that it will be the case in 2022"
, he insists.
Coming from the ranks of the PS before joining LREM, Olivier Dussopt does not regret his departure from the PS, because
"what we have done is up to what we expected"
, he believes.
With Jean-Yves Le Drian, he created Territories of Progress, a movement which brings together social democrats, progressives,
"the left which wants to govern, the left which wants the success of the country"
, to carry the ideas of the president of the Republic.
"Build a project"
The movement has, according to him, around 2000 members and brings together about ten parliamentarians.
"Our goal is to bring together men and women of the left, who identify with the action of the government, who want to participate in this majority, wish the success of the President of the Republic and his re-election next year"
, insists again the ex-socialist.
From this perspective,
"we will help build a project," he
says.
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Man of the left, how does he judge the positions of the Head of State on sovereign subjects such as security or separatism?
"The law on the values of the Republic is a good law"
, swears the minister, with axes shared by all, he still assures.
"I am one of those who consider that security and public tranquility are not values of the right or of the left,"
he said, proud of the record carried in this area by the executive.
"On the sovereign aspects, on these security issues, we have no differences, which is fortunate," he
insists.
In view of the IMF's forecasts, will the European recovery plan be sufficient?
"It is the way out of the crisis that will allow us to say it"
, answers Dussopt.
"My priority is the implementation of the French recovery plan, 40% of which will be financed by the European recovery plan
,
" he
recalls.
Bercy's objective is for 50 billion to be committed by the end of 2021.
“Our desire is for this 100 billion recovery plan, which will boost the economy, to be quickly and fully implemented
.
"
The Minister of Public Accounts promises that the will of the government is to
" repay the debt without raising taxes "
.
“We do not want, he
swears,
new tax at the end of the five-year term.
Taxes in France will have fallen by 50 billion euros, ”
persists and signs the Walker.