Elisabeth Borne begins her consultations with an Assembly under construction
And “government agreement” is it possible or at least “majorities of ideas” with variable geometry? In search of an answer, Elisabeth Borne, head of a minority government, began Monday the arduous mission entrusted to her by Emmanuel Macron for the week.
The Head of State, who confirmed on Saturday his ” trust “ in the Prime Minister following the loss of the absolute majority in the legislative elections, hopes that she will manage to avoid the deadlock in the National Assembly, with the immediate objective of bringing to a successful conclusion the government bill on purchasing power.
On the president’s return on Thursday from the G7 summits in Germany and NATO in Spain, Mme Borne will have to make him proposals “for a roadmap” et “for the composition of a new government of action”which will be implemented “in the first days of July”.
In the meantime, it is consulting the parliamentary groups once more, in particular on a possible “government agreement”, as well as on the vote of the next texts of law. First received on Monday: the leaders of the majority groups, Aurore Bergé (Renaissance), Jean-Paul Mattéi (MoDem) and Laurent Marcangeli (Horizons).
At the end of the meeting, Aurore Bergé said she was waiting “the concrete proposals of the various oppositions”stating that if they “going in the right direction”she would be “quite willing like the prime minister (…) at [les] sustain “.
At Les Républicains, the main formation towards which the president seems to be turning to get closer to the absolute majority of deputies (289), the new boss of this group, Olivier Marleix, says he refuses “to serve as a crutch to power”. On the left, Nupes-PS deputy Valérie Rabault judges « impossible » to negotiate a coalition in two days.
Even within the presidential majority, some are skeptical. The boss of the Modem, François Bayrou, does not think that “device agreements” or a « coalition » are possible with oppositions, but rather believes “to a government of goodwill and a majority of ideas”.
La France insoumise and the National Rally are excluded by the Head of State from any coalition project, for lack of being, according to him, “government parties”. LFI’s number two, Adrien Quatennens, confirmed on Sunday that there was no “no settlement possible” with the majority.