Towards a more peaceful political return? Emmanuel Macron formalized the invitation made to all the parties represented in Parliament for a large meeting on Wednesday August 30. Objective: to overcome political opposition, to build “together” legislative texts and to open the way, “if necessary”, to referenda. By successive touches, the Head of State thus puts to music “the major political initiative” announced in the middle of the summer to get out of the deadlocks in the National Assembly, where his government comes up against the absence of absolute majority. “We must go further and take a new step of unity and efficiency,” he wrote in a letter revealed by BFM TV this Saturday, August 26.
On the program: an afternoon of discussions and a dinner, in a place which will be specified later. In his invitation letter, Emmanuel Macron suggests that the discussions behind closed doors should be held elsewhere than at the Elysée, to break with a certain formalism. “You share solid agreements and real disagreements between you. But when the best interests of the country are at stake, I have confidence, like many French people, in our ability to converge without denial or renunciation”, assures Emmanuel Macron in this letter addressed to the party leaders, as well as to the presidents of the National Assembly and the Senate.
The discussions will focus on different themes. The president and the party leaders will discuss “the international situation and its consequences for France”, “the effectiveness of public action” including new avenues for decentralization and institutional reforms, and “the cohesion of the Nation”. . The National Rally (RN) and France insoumise (LFI) are also invited to the discussion table. If these two formations are considered by the macronie outside the “republican arc”, the Elysée has given up on dismissing them.
No political formation opposed it
“It’s a loyal outstretched hand,” insists Emmanuel Macron in his letter. The Head of State, who has made education the theme of his political comeback, returned once again to the urban riots of unprecedented violence which had followed the death of the young Nahel, on June 27, during a police check in Nanterre. While he specifies that the results in economic terms “remain solid”, these events have “revealed in part of our youth a loss of sense of authority and civility, a form of decivilization”, he said. hammered.
“In an ever more brutal world, in an era where human ties threaten to fade, the pillars of our republican ideal of a sovereign and united nation are therefore at stake”, observes the tenant of the Elysée. In his letter to party leaders, he mentions a wide range of issues related to the “cohesion of the Nation”, such as the place of school, integration, purchasing power or inequalities.
In principle, no political party opposed this meeting. On Twitter, Marine Tondelier, leader of the Greens, published her written response to the invitation of the head of state, saying that she “would represent environmentalists on Wednesday at the working time proposed by Emmanuel Macron to all party leaders. Count on me to put ecology on the table, largely forgotten in his mail and on the proposed agenda. On the side of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure confirmed his arrival, while the leader of the Republicans Eric Ciotti said he spoke “quite long” with the Head of State on this subject by telephone, according to the media. Atlantico.
The leader of rebellious France Jean-Luc Mélenchon denounced a letter disconnected from the realities of the French. “I think this letter, he must have written it from the planet Mars”, he reacted on TF1 this Saturday, surprised at the absence of mention of the heat wave or poverty when French people “pull their tongues out” to buy school supplies for the start of the school year. “The real subject of the new school year is the social situation. There are 10 million poor people in France who can no longer pay their bills,” he said. At the National Rally, Jordan Bardella, who chairs the party, accepted the Head of State’s invitation but does not want to serve as a “crutch” for a president “looking for a second wind”, he says in an interview at Point.
In his invitation, Emmanuel Macron does not directly address the issue of immigration, which must be the subject of a bill from his government in the coming weeks. In an interview at Point last Thursday, he had not ruled out using again the very controversial article 49.3 of the Constitution, as on pensions, to pass a law on the subject without a vote. “The situation we know is not tenable and we must significantly reduce immigration, starting with illegal immigration,” he said.