She is not “candidate for nothing”If the president of the association of elected officials Régions de France, Carole Delga, went to the Elysée on Thursday, August 29, it is because Emmanuel Macron sought the opinion of local elected officials as part of the extensive consultations he is conducting before designating the next head of government.
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Emmanuel Macron “has the right to refuse Lucie Castets. But he has the duty to choose [le premier ministre] in the left block »she said in The ParisianThursday. A moderate socialist, she is opposed to the strategy of rupture of La France Insoumise. Judging « ridicule » to stick to the program of the New Popular Front, she took the opportunity to present five government priorities, including “the revaluation of salaries” or return “retired at 62”. “We must open up to other republican forces to reach consensus”she believes, calling “to the responsibility of all parliamentarians who benefited from the republican front [lors des élections législatives des 30 juin et 7 juillet] ».
Carole Delga was accompanied by the delegated president of Regions of France, Renaud Muselier. A member of the Republicans (LR) party until 2021, the president of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur says he “right-wing, but now in Macron’s party”In short, the tandem could prefigure the majority ranging from the socialists to the moderate right that the head of state is calling for.
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“Culture of compromise”
In the National Assembly, “It is the central group that is in the majority, not the left”considered Renaud Muselier on France 2, Thursday, referring to the re-election of Yaël Braun-Pivet (Renaissance) to the presidency, on July 18, against the candidate of the New Popular Front, the communist deputy of Puy-de-Dôme, André Chassaigne. But, Mr. Muselier acknowledged, the issue today is the following: “How can we unite this central group?”
For some political leaders, it is on the side of local elected representatives that a way out of the crisis must be sought, they who often manage composite majorities locally and are experienced in seeking cross-party consensus. “The culture of compromise should lead to the search for a coalition of local elected officials”pleaded the LR mayor of La Baule (Loire-Atlantique), Franck Louvrier, in The Sunday newspaper of August 18, advocating “a government of locally elected representatives”.
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The Horizons mayor of Nice (Alpes-Maritimes), Christian Estrosi, also requested the presence of “major local elected officials” in government, as has always been the case “from De Gaulle to Sarkozy”. “We do not involve enough those who are essential to the growth of our country: the world of the economy and large communities, which represent 70% of public investment”, he explained.
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