While Laurent Wauquiez revealed, Monday November 12 at 8 p.m. on TF1, that he had obtained from the government the revaluation of pensions by half the inflation on January 1, several elected Macronists bitterly regret that this announcement was made by the boss of the LR deputies.
It is an exit which does not pass through the ranks of the presidential majority. Guest of 8 p.m. on TF1, Monday November 11, the boss of the Les Républicains (LR) deputies, Laurent Wauquiez, announced that the government and its political family have found a compromise to revalue all pensions by half of inflation at January 1, 2025, then the smallest pensions in July. But as reported by BFMTV, this revelation was not to the taste of the macronie, where several voices believe that the announcement of this arbitration was the responsibility of the Minister of the Budget, Laurent Saint-Martin, or of the Prime Minister, Michel Barnier .
“The form is incredible, I didn't know that Mr. Wauquiez was a minister“, annoys MP Éric Woerth, former minister from the LR ranks. “It's surprising, I didn't remember seeing the name of Laurent Wauquiez in Alexis Kohler's press release announcing the composition of the government“, adds another Renaissance deputy. “It was not up to Laurent Wauquiez to announce it. (…) I thought that the government governed and Parliament parliamented“, also regretted on franceinfo, the deputy for Val-de-Marne, Mathieu Lefèvre.
Republicans are jubilant about “the great work that we are crediting”
On the right, this announcement was, unsurprisingly, well received and some even hailed it as a welcome political coup. “I say well done. A TF1 newspaper for an announcement that concerns millions of French people… It's great work that we put to our credit“, greets an LR deputy. “It's good that we have victories under our belt. We are not going to make all the work we have done in this direction neutral. It makes sense to say it“, believes MP Véronique Louwagie, while the right has constantly opposed the deindexation of pensions in recent months.
When forming his government, Michel Barnier chose to do without the services of Laurent Wauquiez, who was eyeing the Interior or Bercy. “We must see in this announcement a courtesy of Michel Barnier. He did not take Laurent Wauquiez into the government. So he owed him a debt“, judges the deputy LR Julien Dive.
