François Bayrou steps forward to defend the National Refoundation Council, boycotted by the opposition. Appointed general secretary of this political object, he denounces in LCI an attitude consisting of being “against everything a priori, even before [quelque chose] is launched”, while the CNR will start on Thursday.
“In France there is a tradition that it is the controversy, the aggressiveness, the insult that dominates the debates,” he laments.
“No one ever said that the CNR was going to dictate the law”
Regarding France Inter, Gérard Larcher, president of the Les Républicains (LR) party in the Senate, justified his absence by a “gender confusion between participatory democracy and representative democracy.”
“Parliament is parliament,” he insisted.
François Bayrou’s response: “No one ever said that the National Council for Refoundation was going to make the law. The law is the Parliament, the National Assembly and the Senate that will continue to vote on it.”
The former Minister of Justice highlights the “millions of French who are worried about the future.”
According to him, “the idea that the work of proposals on the future should be left in the hands of the official representation, [revient] not realizing the depth of the questions our fellow citizens are asking.
An offensive tone that contrasts with his first statements last Thursday in opinion when his appointment as Secretary General of the CNR was announced. “I don’t know if it will work, even if it can work,” admitted François Bayrou.
Source: BFM TV
