About fifteen Renaissance parliamentarians meet regularly to try to advance sovereign issues in the National Assembly. Coming for the vast majority from the benches of the right, they will soon receive Nicolas Sarkozy.
Organize to weigh. About twenty Macronist deputies have gotten into the habit of meeting around breakfasts and are even affording themselves the luxury of receiving Nicolas Sarkozy soon, according to information from L’Opinion, confirmed by BFMTV.com. With the hope of influencing the future of Emmanuel Macron’s five-year term.
“After the legislative elections, we quickly said to ourselves that we had to meet up with somewhat old elected officials but also look for new deputies who share our sensitivity”, summarizes one of the thinking heads of the group, Constance Le Grip .
If the territories and the courses of the elected officials are very varied, we find an almost constant: that of a commitment to the right. Among the members of this group are Robin Reda, a former very close to Valérie PécresseÉric Woerth, ex-budget minister of François Fillon or Laura Miller, a time deputy to the mayor LR of ReimsMarie Guévenoux, support from Alain Juppé and Charles Rodwell, former adviser to Bruno Le Maire at Bercy.
Very concretely, these parliamentarians who see themselves at regular level now want to work on internal initiatives, from bills to future forums in the press.
“Our goal is to influence sovereign issues such as the police, immigration or even work. We assume to say to ourselves that the majority needs to build up their muscles on their right wing. wants to give it a boost”, assumes another member of the team.
Attal around the table
Emmanuel Macron is struggling to revive since the express promulgation of the pension reform. Neither the roadmap unveiled by Elisabeth Borne in the milestone of “100 days” fixed by the Elysée have not really reassured.
Enough to push this small group to share their thoughts with ministers to relaunch government action. The deputies thus sat down at the questure with Gabriel Attal, the Minister Delegate for the Budget last April.
“It’s one of the best addresses in the Republic, but we mainly talked about immigration and the future of the middle classes”, smiles one of them.
Nicolas Sarkozy will also come to lunch with them in the coming weeks to discuss the political atmosphere and while the right in the National Assembly is deeply divided on the pension reform.
Sarkozy soon on the menu
The invitation is not really surprising. The president appreciates exchanging with his predecessor. The ex-tenant of the Élysée even had a time counted on an agreement between LR deputies and the majoritywithout ever succeeding.
“He himself is quite demanding of contacts with deputies whom he does not always know well and curious to see how the majority works. He is in a position to help us”, still judges Éric Woerth.
The method chosen by this gathering of parliamentarians clearly seems to have worked. “We have worked hard to ensure that the immigration bill is not postponed indefinitely,” says Constance Le Grip.
The left wing, “not the only leg of the majority”
The text has thus returns to the office of Elisabeth Borne this Tuesday, after having put it at the bottom of the pile barely 2 weeks ago.
“We heard a lot of the left of the macronie during the pension reform dragging their feet to vote for the text. We cannot suggest that it represents the only leg of the majority. So we step up, we defend our subjects. Let’s not have the shameful right”, further advances one of its members.
What to see there as a possible stable for future presidential candidates in the macronist camp like the former LR Bruno Le Maire or Gérald Darmanin?
“No one here is post-Macron. We tell ourselves that the best way to win in 2027 will be to have succeeded in the president’s second five-year term,” says Éric Woerth. For the moment.
