Marleix and Bertrand reiterate their opposition to an alliance with Macron

April 11, 2023

The boss of LR deputies Olivier Marleix and the LR president of Hauts-de-France Xavier Bertrand reiterated their opposition to an alliance with Emmanuel Macron, advocated by three deputies in a gallery on Tuesday.

“Almost everything separates us from the policy of Emmanuel Macron, except when by chance he takes a reform that we carried out before him and abandons his own reform”, affirmed the deputy of Eure-et-Loir during the meeting. a press briefing.

“His project is not ours, ours is not his. He has already lost the legislative power, I don’t think he has the absurd idea of ??going to lose what remains of his executive power. “, he added.

In a tribune at Le Figaro, LR deputies Philippe Juvin, Nicolas Forissier and Stéphane Viry as well as the former vice-president of LR Virginie Calmels demand the appointment of a Prime Minister Les Républicains to “break the political impasse”.

“We were told about fifteen deputies and they are three” who “seem not to believe it so much”, mocked Mr. Marleix.

Asked about France info, the LR deputy for Lot Aurélien Pradié also felt that “Emmanuel Macron’s political project is not mine and there is therefore no reason that, to have a beacon on my car, I’m going to join him”.

“If tomorrow we fade behind Emmanuel Macron, then the only benchmarks that will still exist in our country” will be “the far right and the far left”, worried the deputy at the forefront of the sling at LR against the reform retirements.

Xavier Bertrand also warned, on this idea of ??alliance, that “the answer is clear, it’s no!”, Calling on France 2 for “another method” and “another policy”.

The former Minister of Labor also underlined the existence at LR of a “social, popular pole” which “is intended to be respected because what we carry as a voice and as a solution” is “in resonance with what want the French”.

At LR, “we have a vocation to stay together, to work together, but it is also necessary that those who were for the reform (of pensions) understand that this social pole” will be “heard”, he warned, estimating that he himself embodied it but also the deputies Aurélien Pradié, Julien Dive or Pierre-Henri Dumont.

“LRs will have to learn to live with these two sensitivities, it’s unavoidable,” he said.