Republicans, Insoumise France and the National Rally have already announced that they would boycott this body which brings together “political, economic, social, associative forces” as well as citizens drawn, on the reforms relating in particular to power purchase, ecology, institutions and pensions.
Le Monde with AFP
It has been announced, has not yet been launched, but is already shunned. In an interview with several regional daily newspapers , broadcast on the evening of June 3, the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, had announced that he wanted to bring together after the legislative elections a “National Refoundation Council” (CNR) with the “political, economic, social, associative forces”. The instance supposed to bring together elected officials, actors in the field, civil society must be inaugurated on September 8, announced Emmanuel Macron after the ceremony of 78
But after the decision of the Les Républicains Party (LR), the National Rally (RN) and Insoumise France (LFI) to boycott the body, Gérard Larcher, president of the Senate and third character of the State, according to the protocol of the v e Republic , wrote to the President of the Republic to tell him that he would not participate in the CNR, we learned, Monday August 29, from a source close to the president LR of the Senate, Confirming information from Figaro .
“I think that this body cannot reach a renovation of democracy to which you aspire,” said Mr. Larcher in this letter to the Head of State whose extracts are published by Le Figaro. For the president of the Senate “the mechanisms of participatory democracy can help to shed light on the national representation, but they cannot in any case replace it”. “Wanting to bring together parliamentarians in the same body, the only constitutionally authorized to vote the law and control the executive, and representatives of civil society (…) can only lead to a confusion of roles”, he adds .
And “the risk of confusion that the National Refoundation Council conceals and the uncertainties which remain on its true role” are perceived “as a form of bypass of Parliament, that is to say of national representation” , he adds.
vague refusal
Government spokesman Olivier Véran explained, in July, that this CNR was aimed at “sharing diagnoses on the level of the nation on major challenges”, in particular health, education, loss of ‘Autonomy, and that it would associate “the leaders of the political parties, the leaders of the parliamentary groups, of the representatives of associations of elected officials of the territories, of the representatives of the intermediate bodies, the unions in partnership with the Economic, Social and Environmental Council “.
On August 26, rebellious France announced that it would not participate. In July, Bruno Retailleau, the boss of the Senators Les Républicains, and Olivier Marleix, the president of the LR deputies, declined the invitation. Before them, in June, in Agde, Marine Le Pen had already announced that she did not intend to participate, confirmed refusal, at the end of July, by Laure Lavalette, spokesperson for the National Rally.