The minister and president of Agir Franck Riester urged the majority on Sunday to "
work with Edouard Philippe
", who is to launch his party on October 9 in his city of Le Havre, and to build the "
common house
" dreamed of by LREM and the Modem with a view to 2022. "
His ability to unite and his experience are an opportunity for our political family
", and his initiative "
must be the opportunity for us to constitute an even larger gathering pole around our ideas, in the service of the President of the Republic
”, he said during a speech delivered at the second congress of Agir, a component located on the right wing of the macronie, during which he assured the former prime minister of his presence in Le Havre on October 9, "
in family
”.
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At the instigation of the president of the MoDem François Bayrou and of the president LREM of the National Assembly Richard Ferrand, the majority tries to build a “
common house
”, with the objective of anchoring in the center in the prospect of the presidential one of 2022. But its contours remain hazy and the future uncertain.
"
It will be necessary (to) define the modalities, without dissolving or diluting our respective political DNA in a big catch-all party where no one would recognize himself
", thus recognized Franck Riester.
"
The republican right and the center right for origin
"
Urging to “
deepen
” the work with LREM and the Modem, he called on the Centrists of Hervé Morin and the UDI of Jean-Christophe Lagarde to join the initiative. To the right, he said that "
neither the legacy nor the future of the Republican right belong to the LR
", currying the way The Republicans, a "
headless duck
", a party "
curled up on him - even
"and"
without a compass, whose head refused to call to vote for Emmanuel Macron against Marine Le Pen on the evening of the first round of the 2017 presidential election, and some of whom go even further by asserting that 'they would rather vote Zemmour than Macron in the 2nd round in 2022
», A reference to LR deputy Eric Ciotti.
He also saw in the fact that the president of LR Christian Jacob said Sunday not to consider the polemicist Eric Zemmour as being of the extreme right as a sign of the “
decay
” of the right-wing party.
On the contrary, “
we know who we are, we know where we are going.
We have the republican right and the center right for origin and overstepping for horizon,
”he argued.