A hand stretched out towards the macronist camp. Asked this Friday on franceinfo, the president of the Grand Est region Jean Rottner said he was ready to engage in discussions with the government and the presidential majority – relative, with only 247 deputies – in the National Assembly.
“It’s the beginning of a story that can be played out in a different way in France”, wants to believe Jean Rottner. At the end of the European summit in Brussels this Friday, the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron said to himself “very confident” in the ability of the French government to “building compromises” in the National Assembly, with “all the governing parties”.
John Rottner don’t oppose it, unlike the president of the Les Républicains party, Christian Jacob. “I took a clear position by saying that indeed, we had to evolve”, says the president of the Grand Est. The elected official recalls that Olivier Marleix, the new president of the group Les Républicains in the National Assembly “did not demonstrate total closure. He said he would participate and make proposals”. “I refuse to block France”, continues Jean Rottner. Such a deadlock could occur in the absence of an absolute majority in the National Assembly to pass the laws.
Of the art of compromise
The Alsatian heavyweight of LR supports this position because “When we are responsible, we compromise, without compromising. Everyone must understand this: the President of the Republic, our political parties and parliamentarians must go in this direction”. Jean Rottner believes that France will “maybe” be inspired by a model of parliamentary coalition on the model of Belgium, Italy or Germany.
A formula that Jean Rottner considers attractive for the good of his party, in difficulty after the legislative elections and not far from the election of the new president of the right-wing party. “Participating in a form of renewal of our governing bodies, of a project that sets France in motion and that shares a very broad political vision, is not necessarily the decline of a political party. It may also be rebirth and rebirth for Les Républicains”.