The “common house”, bringing together the various chapels of the majority, launched at Mutualité – Le Monde

It’s easy to hide behind big words. On Monday, November 29, cathedrals of superlatives were erected by the speakers who followed one another at the tribune of the Maison de la Mutualité, in Paris, to celebrate the launch of Together Citizens !, the association overseeing the various components of the majority for the 2022 presidential election. “Political history” (according to Franck Riester, president of Agir) would have been marked on the occasion of this “Successful meeting” (François Bayrou, president of the MoDem) which aimed to ratify the “Happy, voluntary, irreversible and irresistible choice” formulated by the macronists, that “Of gathering and unity” (Stanislas Guerini, General Delegate of La République en Marche, LRM). After two years of work, the “common house” bringing together the support of the Head of State was born. Finally, we sigh in its ranks.

This launch meeting mobilized almost all of the government and the leaders of the majority. It had to be that, in the absence of an officially declared candidate, to find a place in an overloaded political agenda. In the viewfinder, in particular: the congress of the Republicans (LR) party, which must nominate its candidate, on December 4. The right wing formation, perceived as the main threat on the road to a possible re-election of Emmanuel Macron, was entitled to the sharpest arrows. In particular that of the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, who, in a video recording, accused “Part of the right to let go to the extreme right”. “In this electoral campaign, we will be told that we must fear the ‘great replacement’, fear the cruel downgrading”, added on stage his predecessor, Edouard Philippe, who did not yet know that the far-right polemicist Eric Zemmour was to declare himself a candidate the next day.

Faced with this vision of the world, the star word of the evening was that of ” exceeding “. “The Republic is the complete opposite of an assignment, insisted the mayor of Le Havre. We are not our identity. We must go further, in the service of a more beautiful idea, even greater: the Republic, France. “ Overtaking is also a bridge thrown over the right-left divide, which should make it possible to bring together “The camp of reason and ambition”, said the president of Territories of Progress (center left), Olivier Dussopt. With Together citizens! as an entrance gate.

A place of “enhanced cooperation”

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