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The political symbol is strong: in the midst of a health crisis, "walkers" and ex-"walkers" launched on Tuesday a new parliamentary group, called "Ecology Democracy Solidarity", causing LREM to lose the absolute majority. Sylvain Maillard, spokesperson for the LREM deputies in the Assembly, strongly attacked Europe 1 at these "slingers". "I am sad to see some of the members leave the LREM group. I do not understand the timing or the objective of this group. We are in the midst of a health crisis, the French have nothing to do with the creation of a ninth group in the Assembly ", he denounced Tuesday noon.
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"We have a lot of answers to give", ensures this new group
MP Sabine Thillaye, who is part of this new group, answered on our antenna to Sylvain Maillard. "We have a lot of answers to give. The crisis has shown that there is a need for answers on the ecological transition. I was committed to Europe, the environment and business. The president has very well worked on the European level, at the corporate level too, but we were very weak at the environmental level. But I refuse the idea of slingers, "she certified.
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17 deputies finally integrate this new group, including the elected representatives of the left wing Aurélien Taché, Guillaume Chiche or Cédric Villani (excluded from the party but still a member of the LREM group) and Mathieu Orphelin. "I was excluded from LREM, but I respect my commitments. I am in a group with former 'walkers', that suits me very well. We never talked about a single thought and a confrontation of people who come from different backgrounds, in this new group, suits me very well, "she said.
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"It's a narrowing of thought", denounces LREM
The spokesperson of the LREM deputies for his part denounced a "narrowing of the thought". "In LREM, there are many who come from the left or the right, or from civil society. I note that those who left in this group all have a past on the left," said Sylvain Maillard. "It is a narrowing of the thought, but precisely it is the surpassing which made us all get closer to Emmanuel Macron. I love to confront myself with my colleagues on very diverse ideas, it is part of the process of LREM ", he added.
"I am very surprised by the speech 'we are neither in the majority, nor outside'. If you are not in the majority movement, it is necessarily more complicated to influence government decisions. Nothing is more sad, when one was elected in 2017 in a movement around Emmanuel Macron, to abandon the project of transformation of the country ", concluded the spokesman of the deputies LREM.