"I would not have said things like that", assured Wednesday the president of the Modem François Bayrou questioned on the remarks of Emmanuel Macron the day before considering that "the crowd" had "no legitimacy vis-a-vis the people who s 'expresses, sovereign, through his chosen ones'.
"Words in these periods are easily excessive, I would not have said things like that," said the head of state's ally on franceinfo. For him, "the demonstrations have their legitimacy but it is not a legitimacy superior to democratic legitimacy".
Recalling that Mr Macron's expression referred to Victor Hugo who makes "the distinction between the crowd and the people", he insisted: "I would not deny the legitimacy of the demonstrations, something is being expressed which is very important for the people who come there.
"It is for me the symptom of this incommunicability in which we find ourselves between the official powers and the grassroots citizens", he analyzed, evoking "this kind of glass wall" that "we must blow up ".
The mayor of Pau also regretted the term "victory" used, according to participants, by Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne during a meeting Tuesday at the Elysee with the tenors of the government and the majority.
"You know very well that I do not share this expression: it is neither a success nor a victory, it is simply the end of a very difficult period of tension, the institutional issue, after that there remains the issue in the people."
"We have no right to denial", decided for his part the Macronist deputy Gilles Le Gendre.
"If it is a question of considering that because the law has been adopted, (...) that the Constitutional Council would have validated it (...), that order returns to the streets, that the violence ceases (…), we were saying that the crisis is over, that it is behind us and that we can resume things as if nothing had happened, we would be making a major mistake”, he explained on Europe1.
About the "legitimacy" of the "crowd", the deputy judged Mr. Macron "perfectly capable of calming things down" during his television interview at 1:00 p.m. on TF1 and France2, evoking a necessary "exceptional response and a great solemnity" to the current "political and social crisis of great gravity".
He suggested the shaping of a "road map" with "all the political forces" to "prevent the country from sinking into an endless crisis". According to him, this roadmap should focus on institutions, public services and relations between political power and intermediary bodies.
03/22/2023 11:20:24 - Paris (AFP) - © 2023 AFP
