• Accustomed to the comfort of the absolute majority during the previous five-year term, the Macronist majority will have to adapt to the new Assembly.

  • We expect more collaboration with elected representatives from other groups, but above all within the majority itself.

  • Some also announce a necessary return to the field.

Eighteen votes.

With eighteen votes, the very first text examined by the new National Assembly was rejected out of hand on Monday evening.

The health bill was indeed targeted by a prior rejection motion from the Nupes, followed by the RN.

It would have been a stain.

So the head of the Renaissance group (172 seats), Aurore Bergé, immediately warned, Tuesday morning, in a group meeting: “The session prevails over everything.

“Understand: the macronie no longer has a free hand.

From the comfortable slippers of the absolute majority to the hard clogs of the relative majority, the deputies Together!

will have to – very quickly – get used to it to avoid disappointment.

Let's start from the observation: with 250 seats, the Macronist coalition as a whole forms the weakest relative majority in the history of the Fifth Republic - 39 seats from an absolute majority.

A difficult situation which makes it unlikely that the legislature will last five years, but not completely black either.

“There are three blocks, and the central block has a large majority”, that is to say far ahead of the Nupes and the far right, recalls the MoDem deputy (48 seats) Erwan Balanan.

“When we look at how the Assembly works, we realize that for most texts, we don't have to have 289 seats for it to pass.

Many pass ''naturally'' with a relative majority, we will get there like that on many subjects.

"As long as neither the Nupes,

Consensus at all levels

However, this will not be enough on THE major text, THE major reforms.

The Breton centrist recognizes this: “We will have to seek consensus, better listen to opposition.

“Are the macronists ready and ready for it?

Aurore Bergé, who took over from Christophe Castaner, defeated in the legislative elections, seems to want to push for new rules.

Now, for example, its MEPs are authorized to sign amendments with colleagues from other groups.

"They couldn't do it until then, even with us", breathes, a little mockingly, an adviser to François Bayrou's Democratic Movement.

“There is a real desire to associate all the parliamentarians of the majority”, proclaims the spokesperson for the Renaissance group, Maud Bregeon.

So among macronists, a well-ordered consensus begins with oneself.

"If we want to agree with the others, we must first be united in the majority, that we work between us upstream", warns Erwan Balanan.

A vision a priori shared by Laurent Marcangeli, the president of the Horizon group (relatives of Edouard Philippe, 30 seats), for whom the co-signature of amendments with the opposition does not seem to be the priority: "If we want to make the things in sensible ways, you have to do them that way.

For that, it is necessary to invent a coordination between the three groups of the majority.

A rare thing under the Fifth Republic, which had not happened since the plural left, from 1997 to 2002.

Between Corsicans

"We are in the run-in, but the relationship is good between the three group presidents," says Laurent Marcangeli.

On the MoDem side, while relations have not always been simple between François Bayrou and Edouard Philippe, we also want to believe that there is "no reason for things to go wrong".

Basically, the relative majority forces the three parties to stick together: “If Renaissance had only needed one of the two groups – MoDem or Horizon – to have the majority, there could have been bickering “, Believes a centrist collaborator.

The same hopes that the Corsican origins of the president of the democratic group, Jean-Paul Mattei, will put oil in the wheels with Laurent Marcangeli, deputy for Ajaccio.

But confronting this “repoliticization” of the Assembly will have to be done without the front pillars.

If we talked a lot about the defeats of Richard Ferrand and Christophe Castaner on the Renaissance side, the president of the MoDem group, Patrick Mignola, and the one who was expected to take the head of the Horizon group, Pierre-Yves Bournazel, were also beaten.

"Many of our deputies were elected in 2017 and have acquired real experience of parliamentary work, our group is one of the most experienced", reassures Maud Bregeon.

“We know how to do politics!, takes offense Erwan Balanan.

Don't worry, personalities will naturally emerge.

When heads fall, inevitably, it creates questions, but all of this will be settled.

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cows ass

Beyond parliamentary work in the strict sense, the members of the majority will also have to organize themselves to be more often on the ground.

“I ask you to be in the permanent campaign”, even launched Emmanuel Macron last Thursday at the Elysée.

"Of course it's software that not everyone had", breathes, ironically, a Renaissance deputy.

During the previous mandate, the Macronist deputies were often criticized for being partly above ground.

One of the reasons, no doubt, for the loss of 100 seats.

“The result of the legislative elections is the result of what is happening on the ground.

The ass of the cows, you have to go and feel it every day, ”invites the colorful deputy of Poissy, Karl Olive.

In more measured terms, Erwan Balanan speaks of "reconnecting the work of Parliament with the rest of the world, by working with unions, associations, citizens, intermediary bodies... Putting major issues on the Nation's agenda, very ahead of the parliamentary debate.

A method that is reminiscent of the National Council for Refoundation called for by the President of the Republic.

This is undoubtedly also the whole meaning of the refoundation of LREM in the Renaissance, with the head of the Macronist deputies in the European Parliament, Stéphane Séjourné, at the helm.

“We must become the most decentralized party in history.

At the departmental level, local officials will have budgetary leeway, local hotlines, ”he announced for example in

Le Figaro

last week.

The success of the presidential majority in this minority mandate depends on this.

The survival of the movement beyond the second and last mandate of Emmanuel Macron too, without a doubt.

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