“Not a fight and not an alliance”

If Macronie has ceded ground in its stronghold of the Rhône, Les Républicains have won an additional deputy there. The presidential majority now has seven seats, the Nupes four and the Republicans three. Nationally, the LRs won a total of 61 seats. What to weigh in the National Assembly. And their boss Christian Jacob persists and signs: “No LR deputy will vote for confidence in the government. There will be” neither a pact nor a coalition with the government “he warns.

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Newly elected Beaujolais, Alexandre Portier, 32, a close friend of Laurent Wauquiez, is already currying the head of state, whom he finds cynical and without a program. But he is ready to pass certain laws.

“There can be no blank check but no systematic opposition either, because that’s not what the French expect.”

Alexandre Portier, deputy LR

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The French “expect elected officials who are constructive, who are responsible for moving the country forward in a situation that is quite serious internationally, nationally, economically and sociallyadds Alexandre Portier. We have to find points of agreement that are transpartisan. We have to intervene very quickly, with pragmatic answers on which I think we must be able to build consensus.”

An LR activist, Estelle supported Alexandre Vincendet in Rillieux-la-Pape, north of Lyon. She adheres to his constructive opposition. “Are we going to ask our deputy to go along with Mr. Macron? No, that’s not what we want, it’s that he remains in his convictions. And I know he will work in this direction for purchasing power in this case, security. We trust him and it is certainly not a fight and not an alliance.

This other militant, Vincent, refuses an ungovernable France, delivered to extremes and to the street. “If my political family chooses to be constructive without denying its convictions, but to move forward with real values ​​and to build, yes! But if, on the other hand, my political family plays a game of systematic opposition, in 2027 , the cards will be reshuffled, he warns. We almost died. There, we may have a second chance, a second wind. Either we seize it, or at some point we will lose even just militants.”

And Vincent does not rule out the idea of ​​LR ministers. “If finally I have an LR minister in Mr. Macron’s government, that means that I may have my convictions which will be represented. And I prefer to have an LR minister in the government than a minister of the extremes.” The idea is gaining ground. Nothing is fixed.