Without a majority in Parliament, Emmanuel Macron has “reached the limits of the system”, according to Gérard Larcher

Europe 1 with AFP 12:39 p.m., March 22, 2024

In the absence of a majority in Parliament, "we have reached the limits of the system", alarms the President of the Senate Gérard Larcher in an interview with the magazine

to be published on Tuesday, where he pinpoints the choices of Emmanuel Macron in the face of “political instability”. In a lengthy interview with the quarterly review, the Republican (LR) executive calls for "the prerogatives of Parliament to be respected" and denounces the "attempts to circumvent by the executive" of which he is the subject, particularly on the state budget.

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"The political instability linked to this situation raises the following question: how to move forward without a majority? Logic would have dictated that the President would propose alliances, text by text, project by project. This has never been his will. So we continue to move forward slowly, with a score of 49-3 (...) We have reached the limits of the system,” the President of the Senate is indignant.

“The conditions are not met” for an alliance

Relaunched on the hypothesis of a government alliance between LR and the presidential camp, once mentioned, the senator from Yvelines "notes that today, the conditions are not met". “I have always said that if there were to be joint work, it could only be done around a shared, discussed project and a contract which must find a majority,” explains the one who began his fifth three-year term at the head of the upper house in the fall.

As usual, Gérard Larcher deplores the attitude of the President of the Republic in relation to local authorities: "Emmanuel Macron sees France from above", he points out, calling for a "real new stage of decentralization". “The policy pursued for a decade has led to the rise of Marine Le Pen,” he is still alarmed, refuting the accusations made to LR of running behind the National Rally. “We can share certain observations” with the RN, “but we have very deep differences”.

Asked about the 2027 presidential election, Gérard Larcher refuses to comment on his preferred candidate. But “there are no providential women or men today,” agrees the President of the Senate.