At the Palais-Bourbon, the ranks of the Walkers are rustling these days with phone calls from an employee of Richard Ferrand to the deputies of the group.
“How do you feel politically?
And in the field?
"He is conducting a small investigation", summarizes the deputy LREM of the Rhône Jean-Louis Touraine.
Because also comes this question, "subsidiary", certifies a close friend of the President of the National Assembly, but nevertheless crucial: "Do you want to represent yourself?
" Sensitive subject.
The answer will say so much about the evolution of this majority, created ex nihilo in 2017 ...
So often divided, so often shaken, as very recently on the alliance with Renaud Muselier in Paca or on regional languages, the LREM group has already suffered forty-five departures for other groups, belonging or not to the majority .
And last year's estimates sounded like a warning: 25% to 30% of deputies wishing to hang up.
The General Staff assures us that the trend is downward today.
The risk of scattering
"Those who say they do not want to represent themselves can be counted on the fingers of one hand," certifies the entourage of Christophe Castaner, the president of the group, who follows this closely.
"Ten percent", in the end, is the prediction that comes up most often among executives, "15%, 20%", estimate other parliamentary sources.
A fan.
All agree, "it is too early".
“You're not necessarily going to say it now. There is a kind of fool's game, ”underlines a deputy of the Republic on the move. And then, observes the president of the MoDem group, Patrick Mignola, "the more the election approaches, the more some say to themselves that they can try a blow". Conversely, he smiles, "there are those whom LREM will not want to bring back, but who will be tempted to leave".
More than a haemorrhage, some expect a scattering of the troops under the various banners of the "common house", MoDem, Agir, Territories of progress, In common !.
During the term of office, LREM has already lost the absolute majority.
For the next one, in the event of Emmanuel Macron's re-election, one of his pillars makes this prediction: “It will be a more composite majority than the current one.
The question is to know what will be its central pole.
»Notice of major maneuvers.
"We are quite numerous to ask the question"
A certainty in these meanders, this hour is, for many, that of questions. Time for reflection among these LREM deputies who had landed in the Assembly in June 2017, promise of renewal of faces and practices slung over the shoulder, plunging into the unknown for the most part. In a year, will they want to extend the experience? "I think there are enough of us to ask the question," says Mickaël Nogal, elected at 26 years old deputy for Haute-Garonne, who, for his part, weighs his desire to start a family.
On the front side, therefore, personal or professional reflections.
So of the elected of Finistère and farmer Sandrine Le Feur, rather left to pile up.
“I found a balance between my professional life and my mandate,” she says.
But I have plans for my farm and that is part of my thinking ”.
Bruno Bonnell (Rhône) has always said that he would only serve one term.
“We need permanent renewal.
The worst thing is that we find the chair comfortable and that we fall back into the habits of a professional politician, ”maintains the one who presents himself to the regional.
In mid-April, former Secretary of State Brune Poirson did not wait for the end of her term to go to Accor.
The "frustrating side" of verticality
On the stack side, the mirror of disappointments.
On the role of a deputy, on the Macronian practice of power.
Recurring, the question of "utility" ... "A fortiori in such a vertical legislature," laments a Walker, when another insists: "We promised something that we did not do: the renovation of Parliament.
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Frédéric Descrozaille, far from wanting to hang up, has even made a web-series: “Legislators”.
"There is an incredible wealth in the Assembly which is untapped", estimates the elected representative of Val-de-Marne.
With "a frustrating side" for those who "did not have a specific role", observes Jean-Baptiste Moreau (Creuse).
"Some consider that they have more means of action in their professional life", adds Aurore Bergé (Yvelines).
A pillar of the group assures him, however, "the side, we could not do everything we wanted because of the crisis" or "the risk Marine Le Pen" motivates more than one to continue.
"We manage to make things happen, even when our proposals are not voted", pleads Sandrine Le Feur.
"This new world, I do not adhere to it"
There were also repeated crises, the increase in violence against elected officials.
“We were shaken,” agrees Frédéric Descrozaille.
“Some were not necessarily ready for this.
It's not easy to bear, you have to be honest, ”slips Jean-Baptiste Moreau, himself recently a victim of grossophobia on Twitter.
Not to mention the episodes of tension with the executive ... Last example, the agreement with LR Renaud Muselier for regional Paca.
"This new world, I do not adhere to it", loose the ex-PS Francis Chouat (Essonne).
"It's good," adds another.
To read alsoBetween "regret" and "warning", the left wing of LREM rumbles after the agreement in Paca
In the background, too, “questions about the line”.
"There is a fairly large proportion of deputies who come from the left and who will find it difficult to follow, except to obtain certain programmatic guarantees", agrees Jean-Louis Touraine.
What is valid “on both sides, left wing, right wing”, underlines one of his colleagues, evoking “the need for ideological clarification”.
It is an accepted fact, so much and so much will depend on the political situation, to say the least unstable.
“There is a good chance that I will represent myself to assume a balance sheet.
But all this will depend on the project that we want to build together, ”says Jean-Baptiste Moreau, who adds:“ Many are waiting, like me, to see how this year will go.
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