“Casually, it has advanced”: National Refoundation Council launched under sign of “dialogue”

Emmanuel Macron inaugurated, Thursday, the CNR in the presence of 40 union representatives, employers, associations and local elected officials. A vast online consultation of the French must open next week.

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Two large white boxes had been installed at the edge of the stadium. Participants in the launch of the National Refoundation Council (CNR), Thursday, September 8, at the National Rugby Center in Marcoussis (Essonne), could drop their mobile phone. A means imagined to guarantee the confidentiality of exchanges, held for eight hours under the aegis of Emmanuel Macron, of the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, and ten members of the government. But the symbol, too, of a tenacious distrust of the turn that the event could take, announced in the wake of the presidential election and organized in the confusion. “The key is to install confidence” to “rebuild consensus”, argued the head of state Thursday morning, invoking the “historic” emergency linked to the war in Ukraine, to the energy crisis , inflation or climate and demographic transition.

This inaugural meeting was therefore first to take on the 40 union representatives, employers, associations and local elected officials who responded, on 52 guests. The “first floor” of an approach supposed to revive democracy, according to François Bayrou, secretary general of the CNR. The participants had not masked their doubts, some stating that they were not there for pleasure. “It’s like in the truth if I lie, I give a chance to the product, launched Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, president of Medef. I do not have the same vision of the situation as the CFDT, however it is Acts to deposit armor a little. “” We live a social, ecological and democratic crisis, abounded Laurent Berger, boss of the CFDT. The role of the unionist is not to be in the commentary, it is to grasp This dialogue space. “

The tenant of the Elysée packed the ears of the absent, notably the president of the Senate, Gérard Larcher. “The twelve who are not there are wrong, he impatient. Because when we have a mandate, we have a mandate to represent, speak, even come say that we do not agree.” Taking up a face he wants “optimistic”, he then repeated that “the door will always be open”. A way of sending the ball back to the camp of oppositions, which, they indicate the path of the Bourbon Palace rather than the road to Marcoussis.

“You need concrete now”

At the end of the day, the participants left a smile on his lips. “All will say that something happened,” said François Bayrou. It is not true that it is a maneuver or a thing. It is an unprecedented democratic approach. “” We believe in it, We managed to include certain subjects, such as work evolution or housing, approves Laurent Berger. It was useful, demanding, annoying sometimes, because we don’t agree. But casually, that advanced. “” Either we look at our feet without doing anything, or we keep hope and we try to imagine other means of public action. This is only the beginning “, wants to believe Saïd Hammouche, president of ‘Mozaïk HR Association.

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