Frying on the line. As soon as the central bloc and the right had joined forces at theNational Assembly to block the Left’s path to power, the new majority has been publicizing its divisions in recent weeks. Taxes, immigration, the “rule of law”… Several points of tension have revealed the fragility of this parliamentary team, whose members have neither campaigned together nor shared the same political history. These ideological fractures can prove fatal when it comes to votes in the lower house, particularly budgetary votes. To the point of making this partisan coexistence incompatible?

In an interview with Paris-Match , Aurore Bergé, MP for Ensemble pour la République (EPR) in the Yvelines region, pinpointed the term “socle commun” (common base), popularized by Matignon to evoke the alliance between Macronist and Droite Républicaine (DR) troops. “Nobody knows what it means”.she says, urging her parliamentary group to be more proactive. “in a power struggle with the government”. by Michel Barbier. And to take an example that speaks for itself: “We don’t applaud at the same moment in the Hemicycle, depending on whether it’s a minister from this or that camp who’s speaking.” Reason why the former Minister for Equality between Women and Men “advocated a rapid 49.3”. on the 2025 Finance Bill, which would have cut short the debates.

In her opinion, this opportunity was all the more missed as the opposition will not agree on a motion of censure in the autumn. Nevertheless, the Rassemblement National (RN) could “push the button next spring”. And thus bring down the government by combining its votes with those of the New Popular Front (NFP).

“Nobody knows what we’re called”

If the Renaissance contingent fell from 157 to 98 MPs between 2022 and 2024, it’s because the presidential party was, for Aurore Bergé, “in a worse state” than many of those in charge “didn’t think so” during the early legislative elections. A charge to which are added several accusations: the absence of “support to candidates “defeated in 2022” and a “unpreparedness in the proposals”. Another question thrown into the debate was Renaissance’s ambiguous position on the “Republican front”. Should we or shouldn’t we call for a vote or withdraw in favor of La France Insoumise (LFI) in constituencies where the RN was poised to win in the second round? “It was a strategic and moral error”This right-wing Macronist railed against her more left-wing comrades, who tend to stick to an anti-RN line.

With the race for 2027 already underway in the presidential camp, Aurore Bergé also highlighted “the subject of ideological backbone” that “no one ever wanted to face.” A supporter of the – since withdrawn – candidacy of former Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne to head Renaissance, the Ile-de-France MP does not want the party to become a presidential stable like the “wants“Gabriel Attal, alone in the race from now on. “I’m not sure that embodiment alone, whatever it may be, is enough to get the doubting French on board.” she grumbles. Before going on to criticize the instability of the presidential movement’s name since its inception: “People don’t even know what we’re called! Renaissance, Ensemble pour la République…” “We’ve changed names every year or so, whereas En Marche! used to speak for itself.”