It was like a little game for him in the presence of a journalist. Olivier Marleix knew that a cruel statement about the President of the Republic was expected of him. “You’re going to make me say bad things about Macron again”he sighed. President of the group of deputies from the Les Républicains (LR) party in the National Assembly between 2022 and 2024, he was both the fierce critic of “macronism” and its “partner”. The relative majority had pushed for this marriage of convenience between the presidential camp and a weakened right.
Although not happy, this union deserved to be told to better understand Emmanuel Macron‘s second five-year term. Olivier Marleix worked on this in French dissolution, the end of macronism (Robert Laffont, 288 pages, 20.50 euros). On July 5, the deputy for Eure-et-Loir sent the corrected and validated proofs to his publisher. « 99 % ». Two days later, he ended his life at the age of 54. Published with the consent of his family, the work is the diary of a main actor in the political tumult of the last three years. That of a right-wing man, nostalgic for the Gaullo-Pompidolian state, whose days are punctuated for two years by negotiations with this weakened majority, obliged to turn to the 62 LR deputies.
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