Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Monday that he regretted the "divisions" within the majority, at a time when a ninth political group with dissident "walkers" could see the light of day soon. National Assembly. "I regret these divisions," he commented on France Info, while denouncing the "frogs" of the Assembly.
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"I regret that some want to restore a left-right divide that we wanted to overcome in 2017 and that the French wanted to overcome," added the minister. The "cleavages" between the left and the right are not the answer to the problems of the French, he said, saying "on the contrary" that "overcoming" these divisions will "provide answers" to their "worries".
The French "are waiting for us on our response to the economic crisis," said Bruno Le Maire, who wants to set the course for a "competitive" and "low-carbon" economy. "The solutions for the future lie in the choices we make now and not by reactivating old reflexes from the past", he stressed, mentioning in particular the idea of "taxing the rich".
Twenty deputies in a new group?
"The subject is how our economy copes with climate change while preserving jobs for all," he said. "I think that we are very far, very very far, light years away, from the question of the creation of a group of a few parliamentarians in the National Assembly".
The rumor of the creation of a new group in the National Assembly has been around for months. Speculation about this new entity focused on the themes of ecology and the social was revived in early March by the publication of extracts from a provisional profession of faith in Les Echos. Since then, a list with around twenty names, including that of majority deputies, has been circulating to form this ninth group called "Ecology democracy solidarity".