Between the Right and the Macronists: How to say goodbye
The fragile "common foundation" assembled in the government is openly tearing itself apart. For how long? asks this Brussels daily.
In the photo, the setting is sunny but the faces are tense. Emmanuel Macron and François Bayrou posed this Wednesday [July 2] with the full government. One last photo for the road? Nothing is going well within the so-called "common base" cobbled together between the Macronists and the right after last year's disastrous dissolution. The explosion now seems programmed. All that remains is to know when the explosion will occur.
Renaissance Minister for Ecological Transition Agnès Pannier-Runacher has branded her colleague from the Republicans (LR) Interior Ministry, Bruno Retailleau , a "populist." The latter had advocated for an end to public subsidies for renewable energy. Former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, head of the presidential party, has outright accused the right of "aligning" itself with the National Rally on environmental issues. She had voted with Marine Le Pen's party for the abolition of low-carbon traffic zones in major cities.
The right is giving the center a taste of its own medicine. A reform of the voting system, to bring about proportional representation? François Bayrou dreams of it and believes he sees a path to voting for it in the fall. "Without me!" is already threatening Bruno Retailleau, the new leader of the LR .
Courrier International
