ANALYSIS
"A vote of responsibility". Thus the president of LR Christian Jacob qualifies the decision of the majority of the deputies of his party to abstain during the vote of the plan of deconfinement proposed by Edouard Philippe, Tuesday at the Assembly. But some parliamentarians voted for it, like a dispersed right that does not always convince elected officials on the ground.
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"We have every interest in it working"
Some local elected officials seem indeed willing to work with the government, which asks them to be on the front line. "We are on the maneuver, we have every interest in making it work," says a mayor, even if some people worry about the responsibility that weighs on their shoulders.
But at the national level, not really a clear line. On Tuesday during the vote, while the group's order was to abstain, eleven parliamentarians approved the plan. "There are clearly different approaches: very pragmatic, others more political," analyzes a deputy LR. "Some, out of interest, are sensitive to the call of the foot to the national union" jokes a party official.
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Eric Woerth's vote "for", for example, did not go unnoticed. "The Republicans have not decided on what they were," decrypts a deputy who points out the absence of a clear line within the party. "It's a mess at the assembly," said a former LR deputy, who added: "But it's Macron's strategy: divide and conquer."