“The choice of clarity and boldness”, “the president must let us do it”: the Macronie d’Occitanie facing dissolution

Patricia Mirallès, Secretary of State for Veterans and outgoing MP for the 1st constituency of Hérault, alongside the President of the Republic. MAXPPP – ANDRE PAIN/POOL

Elected officials and activists from the presidential majority welcomed the choice of dissolution differently. If the head of state is sometimes blamed, the outgoing deputies in the region are already in battle order.

On the Telegram loops of the presidential majority, the encrypted social network favored by politicians that accelerates the slightest rumor, the information had not circulated this time. "We learned it, like everyone else, on television", whispered an early activist on Monday morning. "At the RN, they had been preparing the hypothesis of a dissolution for several months. They are ready, not us. Apart from those leaving, we don't have any candidates, we'll have to find them in a few days,laments another, a party executive in the region who, since Sunday at 9:15 p.m., has been heating up his smartphone to train his battalions.

In Macronie, the head of state's decision to replay the legislative elections did not make the troops jump for joy. Microphone connected, we certainly salute "his courage to listen to the people", tells us the former Hérault departmental delegate Jérôme Toulza . "He had no other options. The national assembly became a sandbox with some of the barkers of the LFI, we were not able to make a pact, it had become an obligation< /em>, analyzes for his part Patrick Vignal, the deputy for Hérault who is going back to scrap in this little Camargue ever more RN for the fourth time in twelve years.

But off the record, others are railing against this demonetized president who decides the strategy in his own corner. If he gets personally involved in the campaign, it's ruined, says an elected official. Patrick Vignal says it more soberly: "We have an excellent president internationally, but he cannot be on all fronts, he must be on all fronts. he now leaves us to do it nationally. His colleague from Aveyron Stéphane Mazars calls on GabrielAttal. "He is the leader of the majority, it is he who must set the tone for the campaign". Not Emmanuel Macron ? "Joker", he sweeps away, before adding all the same& nbsp;: "Even if it was a European election, it is obvious that the result reflects a certain distrust".

Half-heartedly, the head of state is therefore designated as one of the causes of the ills of the Renaissance. From Paris where she should have continued the debates this Monday around the bill on the end of life, Laurence Cristol, elected in the 3rd Hérault constituency, does not go that far, but she also ultimately says she is not surprised by the result of the Europeans. "We felt this anger coming on the ground. The message has been sent, it's up to us to hear it and recreate the link with the French, this essential dialogue", she confides, thus calling for to "respond to their concerns, with the values ​​we carry".

Stéphane Mazars however warns: "Saying that we must stop the brown plague is no longer enough, even if the ideology of the RN is the antithesis of republican values. We will have to explain, decode what they say, demonstrate to their voters that their program does not provide any solution to their problems, explains the MP of the ;Aveyron which therefore intends to lead "a proximity campaign" in this territory where, for the first time, the National Rally came out on top in the ballot boxes.

A "boosted"minister

Patricia Mirallès will also have to return to her lands in the 1st Hérault constituency where she has been elected since 2017 to campaign. Before, the Secretary of State for Veterans was again this Monday alongside Emmanuel Macron for a new stage of the memorial tour de France, this time in Oradour-sur-Glane. The evening before, she was summoned to the Élysée, like all the ministers, once the presidential sentence had fallen. "Some people around the table took a while to understand it, it was necessarily violent at the start. But after discussing, everyone left feeling boosted", reveals Ms. Mirallès.

For her in any case, it was inevitable. "When the president makes decisions, they are carefully considered. We can no longer wait for this Republican arc which is not coming. He therefore decided to whistle the end of the game. If the French want to bring Marine Le Pen or Jordan Bardella to Matignon, they have the possibility of doing so, but they will have to follow through. Otherwise, we must give a majority to the head of state so that we can work again until the end of his mandate. This dissolution is the choice of clarity, audacity and ambition, defends the minister. Who calls on his fellow citizens to "stop electoral tourism, especially in this commemorative year. Let's remember what the far right did when it was in power 80 years ago".

"There is fire"

His comrade from the neighboring constituency still adds that it will be necessary "to be able to talk to people. Carole Delga in Occitanie, Xavier Bertrand in the North… ", suggests Patrick Vignal at the moment when "there is a fire in the house". The Macronists have three weeks to play firefighters.

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