RECIT – Frustrated by having to share their power with LR, annoyed by the way the budget debates have turned out and disoriented by the lack of prospects, Emmanuel Macron’s supporters are increasingly deserting the Hemicycle. At the risk of leaving the field open to the left and the RN.
Scattered around the Hemicycle of the National Assembly, as if lost in the middle of a battlefield, three Renaissance deputies look as if they’re having a bad day. On this new night of budget debates, Friday October 25, Mathieu Lefèvre, Charles Rodwell and Charles Sitzenstuhl are the targets of attacks from their colleagues on the left and from the Rassemblement National (RN). Heads down and smiles of spite.
Almost alone on their benches, the last defenders of the presidential line, these finance specialists are trying to prevent the increase in corporation tax for large companies… proposed by the government they are supposed to support. At the microphone, Charles Sitzenstuhl worries about the “jeopardizing France’s economic attractiveness“and “likely return of unemployment“.
“And I remind you that he is in the majority!“a mocking RN deputy. A little later, Socialist Dieynaba Diop takes aim at her colleague Charles Rodwell’s intervention: “We should create a tax on arrogance! It would bring in billions!“. Here are the representatives of the Macron camp caught in the huge jaws of opposition. Abandoned by their allies.
Since the failure of the head of state’s troops in the early parliamentary elections…
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