The hemorrhage continues within the LREM group at the National Assembly. The majority group has just recorded two new departures, with those of the elected representative of Charente-Maritime Frédérique Tuffnell and the deputy of Seine-Maritime Xavier Batut, who chose to "withdraw", while remaining related to the group. With this new departure, the workforce of the LREM group falls to 300 members and related to the Assembly against 314 in 2017 (including the president of the Assembly Richard Ferrand), while the absolute majority is at 289 seats. A new blow for the movement of Emmanuel Macron, who must receive deputies, senators and European elected representatives on Tuesday, to try to re-bond.
"It is certain, it is not an easy sequence", notes a minister after this new week of turmoil in the majority, with the controversy around parental leave in the event of the death of a child, and angry deputies , some of whom, for the first time, attacked the head of state. "I have never seen that, it is stronger than usual", confides an executive of the group.
"It is urgent to re-motivate the troops"
Emmanuel Macron will therefore try to reweave ties with his majority. Deputies, senators, and even European deputies, are invited to the Élysée Tuesday evening. "He will have to play it fine, and especially not that he offends them even more," worries a ministerial adviser. Because in Macronie, we are aware that the more the weeks pass, the more the majority lose deputies. "It is urgent to redefine a line, to re-motivate the troops. Even more after this horrifying week," said a deputy. A majority executive prefers to smile: "We did ' Settlement of accounts at OK Corral ' the week of Kirk Douglas' death".