THE EXPLOSION OF THE LREM PARTY

Hard blow for the party of Emmanuel Macron. A ninth political group with "walkers" and ex "walkers" was "officially deposited" in the National Assembly on Tuesday, May 19, announced founding members. The Republic on the march (LREM) thus loses the absolute majority.

Called "Ecology Democracy Solidarity", this new group is "independent", "neither in the majority nor in the opposition", write in their political declaration the elected officials. Are notably in this group Matthieu Orphelin (close to Nicolas Hulot) or Cédric Villani or Aurélien Taché, who said on Sunday that he was leaving the presidential party.

The new group intends to contribute to "a strong ambition for social and ecological transformation".

"Responding to the ecological emergency, modernizing democracy, reducing social and territorial inequalities: we can do more and better in the National Assembly", say these deputies, for whom "after Covid-19, nothing should be left like before ".

With this ninth group, the La République en Marche group lost seven of its members or related parties and therefore had 288 elected representatives, just below the threshold of an absolute majority (289 seats) which it had previously held alone.

A strong symbol, even if the presidential camp can rely on the 46 MoDem and the ten elected officials Agir.