Emmanuel Macron prepares the ground. The President of the Republic will meet on Tuesday at 10 am at the Élysée with Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne and eleven ministers, including Bruno Le Maire, Gérald Darmanin and Gabriel Attal, according to the Figaro. Objective: to anticipate his “great political initiative” the next day, during which he will meet the party leaders at the Saint Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis) school of the Legion of Honor.
For the invited members of the Government, it will therefore be a matter of presenting proposals to Emmanuel Macron and delimiting the field left to the opposition, while the Head of State has already assured Spot that this new format would lead to “decisions, bills and legislative proposals, but also referendum projects”.
A second meeting in the afternoon.
The government spokesman and delegate minister for Democratic Renewal, Olivier Véran, already put on the table this Monday on BFMTV-RMC the option of a referendum, specifying, however, that nothing has been done so far. This consultation format, unprecedented in France, would make it possible to organize a vote on several issues on the same day.
For Emmanuel Macron, the consultations will continue on Tuesday night at dinner time. According HE Parisian, the tenant of the Élysée will receive on this occasion the executives of the majority of the Élysée. François Bayrou and Édouard Philippe, respectively heads of MoDem and Horizons, are also invited. Like the secretary general of the Renaissance, Stéphane Séjourné, and the heavyweights of the government.
Pending the latest presidential adjustments, the oppositions have already revealed some of their proposals. According the parisianJordan Bardella, president of the RN, intends to call for, among other things, “a referendum on immigration.”
The same goes for Éric Ciotti, his LR counterpart, although the contours of the two respective projects are not exactly the same. On the left, Manuel Bompard, coordinator of La France insubmissive, proposed this weekend to suspend the pension reform and submit the bill to a referendum.
Source: BFM TV
