Blocked, will the government have to negotiate with the National Rally?
It's a little music that goes on a loop in the majority, going from contradictory messages to contradictory messages.
When Éric Dupond-Moretti evoked, from Sunday evening, the idea of "moving forward" with the party of Marine Le Pen, the Minister for Relations with Parliament Olivier Véran for his part estimated, on Wednesday, that the government was not not "considering working concretely to build a majority".
This Wednesday, Marine Le Pen even explained that Emmanuel Macron had discussed, with her, the constitution of a government of national unity, as the communist Fabien Roussel had also revealed the day before.
The challenge for the government is enormous: as it stands, without an absolute majority, it must find a party on which to rely in order to implement its program, but all claim to be the opposition for the time being.
With its 89 deputies elected after the second round of legislative elections on Sunday, the National Rally can therefore be an important support.
Emmanuel Macron began to receive the leaders of the main parties on Tuesday, "in order to identify possible constructive solutions in the service of the French", had detailed the Elysée in a press release.
“No compromise with the RN”
So, could the government work with the RN?
"When we need to have a majority and if it's good for the French, we will get the votes of the National Rally", said Monday, on the set of "C Ce Soir", the deputy Ensemble des Hauts -de-Seine just re-elected, Céline Calvez.
"When the compass points to the extreme right, the shipwreck is only a few meters away..." attacked the First Secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure.
And Céline Calvez to backpedal on Tuesday, on Twitter: “Let things be clear: never any compromise with the RN, with which I do not share any value.
The oppositions will also have to take their responsibilities, far from blockages, posturing, and this for the future of France.
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Let things be clear: never any compromise with the RN, with which I do not share any value.
The oppositions will also have to take their responsibilities, far from blockages, posturing, and this for the future of France.
— Celine Calvez (@celinecalvez) June 21, 2022
“All options are on the table.
It could indeed be an enlargement of our majority, the continuation of the centre-left/centre-right going beyond it, why not an even wider enlargement to tell each other
the time is serious, we have to be able to unite our forces and find points of consensus to reform the country
, or it can be a project-by-project majority system, sometimes with the left, sometimes with the right, ”described Olivier Véran on Wednesday, on BFMTV and RMC.
But “to do the calculation in anticipation that thanks to the voices of the RN we would pass a text that we would not pass without them, it is no, nor with the LFIs”.
“Why would we discuss less with the RN than with LFI?
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Others have less reserve.
This is the case of the LREM deputy from Paris, Sylvain Maillard.
“Obviously, we need a consultation that is very different from what we did before.
It must be done with all the political forces, which we like or do not like, ”he explains to Public Senate.
And the deputy wondered: “Why would we discuss less with the RN than with LFI?
"And the chosen one to continue:" That's it, or we dissolve.
We have to find an agreement on the texts.
Sometimes the RN can have positions that lead him to vote on texts.
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