At least three new deputies leave the LREM group for the Modem

The LREM group in the National Assembly shrinks again, but not the majority.

After several waves of departures, three members of the group La République en Marche to the National Assembly "stepped aside".

Deputies Christophe Blanchet (Calvados), Perrine Goulet (Nièvre) and Blandine Brocard (Rhône) announced Monday to join the MoDem group, after the outstretched hand this summer of the latter's president, Patrick Mignola.

Leave while remaining in the presidential majority

Contrary to previous departures, the majority is not amputated since the MoDem actively supports the majority.

"I remain clearly in the presidential majority by finding myself in this group but I take a step aside to better advance", wrote the deputy Christophe Blanchet in a press release.

He ensures that he remains "loyal to the President of the Republic" and "consistent with (s) our political commitment for (s) younger years as a UDF then Modem militant".

▶ ️ Find the video in which I explain my change of parliamentary group at the National Assembly https://t.co/r177pgNuUb

- Perrine Goulet - Member of Parliament for Nièvre (@perrinegoulet) September 7, 2020

"I can only note that we have sometimes shown a lack of explanation in our reforms, that the territories are not listened to enough, and that too many decisions are taken from Paris," said Perrine Goulet in a statement. video posted on Twitter where she announces her change of group.

Blandine Brocard has also confirmed her departure for the MoDem group, while stressing that she "remained in the great family of the presidential majority". The LREM group did not succeed in "opening up to all ideas from where 'she comes ", and has" easily a tendency to drift towards a kind of self-righteousness, "she told AFP, claiming" to find herself more "in the MoDem.

Up to 9 departures at LREM?

Other names of possible starters are circulating in the press.

Thus, according to

, "The deputies Aude Bono (Aisne), Xavier Batut (Seine-Maritime), Stéphane Buchou (Vendée), François Jolivet (Indre), Cendra Motin (Isère) and Sandrine Le Feur (Finistère) could follow their comrades but still hesitate ".

On the sidelines of the parliamentary days of the Modem in the Landes, his boss Patrick Mignola assured the press that he had not had any contact with deputies given starting from the Macronist group: "At no time was there any question of them coming to we".

As for the LREM group, no letter of resignation has been received.

Cendra Motin, for example, told AFP that she "will not leave the LREM group" but "is campaigning for the creation of an intergroup with the two other majority groups" (MoDem and Agir).

This intergroup should see the light of day on September 15, the day when parliamentary work resumes.

Xavier Batut has meanwhile "categorically denied" to be starting.

Two departures during the month of August

At the beginning of August, it was the "walker" Christophe Jerretie who announced his departure for the MoDem group, defending, also in unison with Patrick Mignola, the idea of ​​"a large center".

At the end of August, Michèle Crouzet had also joined the party of François Bayrou.

Patrick Mignola "extended his hand" to those "of the majority and the opposition" to "enlarge his group" and at the same time the majority.

The MoDem could also see the arrival of some deputies from the Libertés et Territoires group after the latter's registration in the opposition.

According to

, the ex-LREM Sabine Thillaye, excluded at the start of the year because she did not want to give up her place as president of the European Affairs Commission and since a member of Ecology-Democracy-Solidarity, also joins the MoDem group .

While the flow of departures from LREM has not dried up this year, against a backdrop of disagreements on the line or for the municipal authorities, the group has lost the absolute majority in the Assembly and must therefore rely on the votes of the MoDem which wins several recruits.The LREM deputies must elect their new president on Wednesday and Thursday, after the resignation of Gilles Le Gendre.

Five candidates are in the ranks, including Christophe Castaner and Aurore Bergé.

Rémy Rebeyrotte withdrew his candidacy.