In a collective forum published this Sunday in the Journal du Dimanche, the mayor LR of Toulouse and president of Toulouse Métropole, Jean-Luc Moudenc, calls on the parliamentarians of his political family to find convergences with the presidential majority to avoid blocking the ‘National Assembly.

In addition to Jean-Luc Moudenc, the text is co-signed by twenty local LR elected officials including the mayor of Châteauroux, Gil Avérous, the mayor of Caen, Joël Bruneau, or Arnaud Viala, the president of the departmental council of Aveyron.

“Members of LR we campaigned for Valérie Pécresse and we remain faithful to a political line which has always been that of the center and the liberal, social, European and popular right, they write. We are worried to see our party s weaken at the national level and we call for it to take more account of its local elected representatives even though they are its last wealth. A reform of the governance of our training, giving full place to local elected representatives in the determination of national choices, would put LR back in resonance with its now disoriented electorate. We ask it not to cower on its parliamentary group but to return to its original inspiration, that of unity and openness.”

“Overcoming divides”

The authors of the forum specify “that LR has a particular responsibility as a party of government”.

“An attitude of systematic opposition would complete the ruin of what remains of it to gain. A rallying to treat the happiness of extremes. For us, the interest of France as of our family of thought commands to overcome the divisions and to abandon the sterile postures to work on concrete convergences, by making prevail the superior interest of the country. LR would grow above all to be force of responsible proposals and the presidential majority to accept these on the basis of coherences allowing our country to overcome the challenges that are his. And to cite security, the safeguard of the health system and pensions, the recovery of the school, full employment, the restoration of public accounts, the ecological transition…

They conclude by calling “with force and seriousness” the LR deputies and the presidential majority to “converge on projects which move France forward” and thus avoid immobility.