“The Dissolution of France”, Olivier Marleix’s posthumous testimony about the political crisis since 2022

It was like a little game for him in front of a journalist. Olivier Marleix knew that cruel statements about the President of the Republic were expected from him. “You will make me say bad things about Macron again”he sighed. President of the deputy group of the Les Républicains (LR) party in the National Assembly between 2022 and 2024, he is as strong a critic of “macroronism” as his “partner”. The relative majority has pushed for a marriage of convenience between the president’s camp and the weak right wing.

Despite their unhappiness, these unions deserve to be informed to better understand Emmanuel Macron’s second five-year term. Olivier Marleix worked on this in Dissolution of France, end of macronism (Robert Laffont, 288 pages, 20.50 euros). On July 5, Eure-et-Loir representatives sent the corrected and validated proof to the publisher. “99%”. Two days later, he ended his life at the age of 54. Published with the approval of his family, the work is a diary of a major actor in the political turmoil of the past three years. That the right-wing figures, longing for a Gaullo-Pompidolian state, whose days were punctuated for two years by negotiations with this weak majority, were forced to turn to the 62 LR deputies for help.

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