This MP, member of the “left wing” of the macronie announced, this Wednesday, October 2, her departure from the Ensemble pour la République group, citing a disagreement on the subject of tax justice, but also on the composition of the government.
She had warned. By announcing her departure from the Ensemble pour la République group this Wednesday, October 2, Stella Dupont swells the ranks of former loyalists of the President who have deserted the Macronist clan since the appointment of Michel Barnier as head of government. In an interview with Parisian, the MP from the “left wing” of the macronie justified her decision by a disagreement on “composition” of the relative majority supporting the government, “especially with LRs which are far from [ses] values, and also taking into account the still vague perspectives provided by the Prime Minister” in its general policy statement.
In an interview given to Release last September 23, she already said «crain[dre] to be forced into censorship” of the Barnier government whose composition remained “across the throat”. As for the possibility of a departure from the Macronist group, she then affirmed: “I don’t know where I’ll be tomorrow.” Now it’s clear. In a message published on a loop of Macronist deputies, consulted by AFP, she assumes to disapprove “ambiguity” that Michel Barnier “maintained with the RN since the unacceptable reframing” by Antoine Armand, Minister of the Economy. The latter was taken over by the new tenant of Matignon for having excluded the National Rally from the“republican arch” and political forces he said he was ready to work.
Ambiguity with the RN
The elected official from Maine-et-Loire also criticizes Michel Barnier for not having shown the same severity towards the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau, who distanced himself Sunday evening from “the rule of law”, that he judged neither “intangible, nor sacred”. She finally assumes “a point of disagreement” with the Ensemble pour la République group on tax justice. Where the presidential party balanced its support for the government by discovering that the Prime Minister was considering an increase in taxes on the most fortunate, individuals, businesses, she recalls that she was “favorable from 2022 to the idea of a tax on superprofits, for example”.
Stella Dupont will sit, at least for a time, among the “non-registered” deputies alongside Sophie Errante and Sacha Houlié, other deputies from the famous “left wing” of the macronie having slammed the door on fundamental differences. But she will “with the hope that a social democratic group can emerge in the coming weeks in the hemicycle”, she said. The Macronist group will only have 95 deputies in the National Assembly.
