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At the end of their parliamentary days in Haute-Savoie, Republican deputies and senators have expressed their support for, and participation in, the government of the new Prime Minister, who came to listen to his troops on his Savoyard lands.
On the shores of Lake Annecy (Haute-Savoie), Talloires Abbey is a place conducive to meditation. Do you feel the flavor of a miracle there more than anywhere else? Deputies and senators The Republicans (LR), welcomed in this ancient thousand-year-old priory this Thursday evening, for the closing of their parliamentary days, will be able to ponder the subject… With 7.25% of the votes in the first round of the legislative elections, the right was far from being able to hope to regain the center stage. Yet here is one of their own at Matignon. A sainthood? To give substance to the prodigy, the new Prime Minister came to exchange, on his Savoyard lands, with the LR parliamentarians. “Michel Barnier welcomed as a hero in his family! It’s still a bit unexpected”a member of the House of Representatives is laughing.
At the end of a closed-door discussion in a hotel in Annecy in the afternoon, the LR leaders confirmed what many in LR have described in recent days as obvious: the right will support Michel Barnier, 73 years old, half a century of political commitment to the right. “The appointment of Michel Barnier is excellent news”applauds Laurent Wauquiez, adding that the tenant of Matignon will have the “very clear support” LR troops in Parliament. “In a number of areas, we need a policy of
