The return of the old for the departure of the new. This Monday, August 28, some former advisers to Emmanuel Macron will once again tread the Elysian parquet floors to come and drink to the found time of those who succeeded them. Among those released, the normalien and author of “Slow democracy” David Djaïz, general rapporteur of the National Council for Refoundation and adviser in charge of the said structure within the president’s cabinet since… September 2022. Barely a year after the implementation place of this authority, which was to generate according to the head of state a real revolution, here that one of its main actors decides to devote himself to “his entrepreneurial and editorial projects”. Could the grandiloquent CNR be sinking?
Imagined by Emmanuel Macron during the 2022 legislative campaign, the National Council for Refoundation aimed to improve public decision-making by building a new form of dialogue between political forces, unions, citizens, around several themes. as varied as education, health, institutions, etc. “I suffered a little that the CNR was assimilated to the great debate”, admits David Djaïz today. Its launch, in the middle of the campaign for the legislative elections, largely contributed to blurring the message. Many have interpreted the presidential initiative as a new way of competing with Parliament, a fear aggravated by the relative majority. Some, within the CNR itself, also regret the lack of enthusiasm of Elisabeth Borne and Alexis Kohler, the Prime Minister and the Secretary General of the Elysée being, one imagines, not very fond of criticism of the high administration that the creation of this strange political object exhaled.
After a year of scraping by, how should the CNR interpret the new Macronian fad, announced in the interview with the Pointconsisting of building a dialogue and decisions by inviting the various political parties represented in the Senate and the National Assembly around the table from Wednesday, August 30?
Officially, everything is consistent. “The CNR is the implementation of government policy, swears a senior Elyos official. On Wednesday, it is intended to go beyond government policy.” If the same recognizes that at the national level, the National Council for Refoundation “struggles to go beyond the postures”, it would on the other hand be a clear success at the local level – so much so that a “new plenary session will take place at the end of September to announce the following”. What David Djaïz also certifies: “The CNR is moving on to practical work. Far from stopping, the process is accelerating but is pivoting a little. We are going to transform public action by building new coalitions at the local level.” As pleasing as this project seems, the senior civil servant and essayist, who insists on the “exciting experience” lived, therefore prefers to devote himself to “new professional adventures”, including the publication in January 2024 of a book on the ecological transition. . He will be replaced, we swear at the Elysée. The CNR is saved.