“Be proud to be amateurs.” This famous sentence launched in 2020 by Emmanuel Macron to his deputies offends some, like Pascal Lavergne. He replaced Christelle Dubost during the passage of the member for Gironde as Secretary of State at the Ministry of Health. “I don’t know if the time of amateurs is over, but I don’t feel like we were really amateurs.he argues. You know, I have 25 years of office behind me. I never considered myself an amateur.” Today, Pascal Lavergne is one of those who are invested this time in the front line for the legislative elections, present among the 500 candidates of the presidential majority, Tuesday May 10, for a day of training at the docks of Aubervilliers, in the Seine -St Denis. The main figures of the macronie were invited to this meeting, including several ministers, some of whom are candidates like Olivier Véran, Jean-Michel Blanquer, Gabriel Attal or Clément Beaune.
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Amateurism is still claimed by the promotion of 2017. Jean-Baptiste Moreau, deputy of Creuse, had at the time been chosen for his profile as a farmer. “We are always a bit of amateurs”he acknowledges.
“I do not claim to be a professional politician and I do not intend to make it my profession until my retirement. But indeed, we have still learned a little during this mandate and it is normal that we share this experience.
Jean-Baptiste Moreau, MP for Creuseat franceinfo
The MP admits that “It’s not necessarily simple and innate at the start. There are a lot of things that are planned in terms of movement, so much the better, but we are there too, we who now have a little experience, to explain to them what are the things not to do, the things to do.”
The newcomers do not rush to come and meet the press. Not yet quite ready it seems, but to renew, the majority have changed tactics. This time, she also often names known heads, at least activists like Ambroise Méjean, president of young people with Macron who also works in the Senate for the group La République en Marche. And his arguments are already grounded. “Sending a deputy from the presidential majority to the National Assembly also means sending someone who will allow tomorrow to advance the files of their territory when they are national level files.he explains. When we want to release credits which are ministerial credits, it is easier to have a deputy who is in contact with the government, who is in contact with the ministers, who is in contact with the President of the Republic rather than an opposition MP. The choice is actually a choice of efficiency.”
Paul Midy was him until now delegate general of the Republic on the move. Well acclimatized, he has no particular fears to start. “Obviously we learn, we listen, the president himself says he learnedhe confides. I think we’ve all learned and obviously we’re going to try to do even better in the next five years. And above all, if the voters give us a nice majority in the National Assembly. We will have to be with the French men and women to explain to them the project that we have in the National Assembly and which, in fact, are implementing Emmanuel Macron’s project.
And they are thus a dozen to come either from the party, or from ministerial cabinets, sometimes even from the Élysée, to come out of the shadows in the name of what the majority always calls renewal.
Legislative 2022: the candidates invested by the presidential majority reunited – Report by Julie Marie-Leconte
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