“You realize. We are even further to the right than the government! » On September 18, Antoine Armand had not yet been named Minister of the Economy when he met, in the corridors of the semi-deserted National Assembly, with his colleague Sacha Houlié, a former Macronist disappointed by the movement’s right-wing drift. The man who remains a Renaissance deputy for Haute-Savoie and young president of the economic affairs committee confides his dismay: his parliamentary group, the Ensemble pour la République (EPR), is rebelling against the tax increases promised by the new prime minister . of the right, Michel Barnier, to cover an abysmal public deficit.
For Antoine Armand, as for Macronie’s left wing, the “fiscal justice” defended by the former European commissioner (temporary taxation of the richest and largest companies) hardly contradicts the spirit of a historically income-killing Macronism. But this taxation counteracts the continued tax cuts since 2017 and offends right-wing elected officials who shout about a return to the François Hollande years, marked by fiscal fatigue. “History will record that it is a right-wing government that is pushing France back into fiscal madness”enraged, on Friday, October 18, Charles Sitzenstuhl, elected (Renaissance) of the Lower Rhine during the committee debates.
With one foot in the government coalition and the other outside, the presidential field seeks its ideological anchor in an apparent disorder. The fractures within the group, yesterday united around the personality of Emmanuel Macron, are revealed both in fiscal issues and in sovereign issues. The promise of a new immigration law, carried out by the right-wing Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, is poisoning the environment.
“Different political and ideological origins”
Macronie’s left wing, such as Roland Lescure, deputy for the French abroad and former Minister of Industry, or Marc Ferracci, his successor in Bercy, express their doubts about this initiative that revives the bad memory of the approved immigration bill with the votes of the national demonstration (RN) in December 2023. In France Inter, on October 14, Gabriel Attal, now (renaissance) deputy for Hauts-de-Seine and president of the EPR group in the Assembly, questions the ” sense ” of this new law promoted by a minister who had said a few days before: “Immigration is not an opportunity. »
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