Emmanuel Macron meets, this Wednesday, August 30 in the afternoon, on neutral and symbolic ground, at the school of the Legion of Honor in Saint-Denis, the leaders of the political parties to try to find convergences, in the framework of what he called “ major political initiative », in the presence of Elisabeth Borne, the presidents of the Assembly, the Senate and the Constitutional Council. ” A loyal outstretched hand “wrote the President of the Republic in his letter of invitation. But the objective is also to put his opponents up against the wall
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By inviting party leaders to come and discuss with him on priority subjects: the consequences of international crises, how to reform institutions, how to make a Nation. Emmanuel Macron wants to put the opposition face to face with its responsibilities and take the French to witness. In the entourage of the Head of State, there is no denying it, this outstretched hand is therefore not devoid of political ulterior motives.
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After the failure of his Prime Minister to widen the relative majority in particular with Les Républicains (LR) on the pension reform, Emmanuel Macron is always at the mercy of the blockage or the parliamentary accident, he therefore enters the game personally.
Meeting behind closed doors
At the Élysée, we also insist on the way in which the meeting will take place to give credibility to the process. Discussions will take place behind closed doors to “ speak without taboo “, without collaborators, eye to eye one could say, with the open hope of creating the conditions for “ build consensus on legislative texts or referenda.
The ambition is stated, it is a challenge. The leaders of the opposition parties have already expressed their mistrust of a meeting which, according to them, could only be a ” trap “.
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