The marine snake of the presidency of Emmanuel Macron. The head of state reaffirmed this TF1 on Tuesday, May 13, his desire for referendum, “we will be too slow or blocked by the political situation” in TF1.
“I want us to organize a multiple consultation,” “several referendums at the same time in the coming months,” he said, evoking as an example a possible question about screens and access to social networks for children under 15 years.
If the president spoke of the referendum of his first election in 2017, he had never used it until then.
The last referendum in France dates from 20 years ago. It was held on May 29, 2005. This referendum was the purpose of ratification of the European Constitutional Treaty. He had not won with 54.67% of the votes cast (abstention exceeds 30%) and the constitutional process had been abandoned. It was the second time in the history of the fifth Republic that voters did not vote for the most part.
An abstention record in 2000
Before this consultation, another referendum took place in September 2000, marked by an abstention record in the nine referendums of the fifth Republic. Valéry Giscard d’Esting, then deputy, had presented a bill to reduce the duration of the presidential mandate from seven to five years. President Jacques Chirac, who initially opposed, presented the idea to the French vote. The Yes reached 73.21% of the votes cast. But almost 70% of registered voters (69.81%) did not go to the polls.
In 1992, the Referendum on the Maastricht Treaty on the European Union, organized by the socialist president François Mitterrand also obtained the approval of the French, on September 20, 1992. The Yes won very little with 539,410 votes in advance, or 51.04% against 48.95%. Most departments (53) have chosen mainly. The abstention was this time relatively low: 30.31%.
Most of the referendums organized under the fifth republic agreed with the procedure provided for in article 11 of the Constitution. According to this, it is a prerogative reserved for the President of the Republic that can “present to the referendum any bill on the organization of public authorities, on the reforms related to the economic, social or environmental policy of the nation and the people who contribute to it, or who tend to authorize the ratification of a treaty that, without being contrary to the Constitution, would have implications on the operation of the institutions.” “
French must vote for or against a bill or bill and the vote result is attractive to this text. It can also be if the president balances his mandate, as the General of Gaulle did in 1969. The last referendum organized by Charles de Gaulle touched the regionalization and transformation of the role of the Senate. A referendum in the form of plebiscite, in fact he had warned that he would resign in case of failure and on April 27, 1969, he did not win at 52.41%, with a participation greater than 80%. Therefore, Gaulle General resigned after 11 years of presidency.
No topic announced by Macron
Emmanuel Macron has not announced the issues in which he would like to organize referendums. Questioned Tuesday at the end of life, he said he expected the bill in the exam process “to be voted” in Parliament. But without excluding the French in case of a parliamentary “stuck”.
He also replied “why not” the idea of a referendum about public finances defended by François Bayrou, which “the plan” still expects. But not in the budget itself, the prerogative of deputies and senators, rather in possible “reforms” of the prime minister “at the economic and social level.”
On the other hand, he rejected the hypothesis of a referendum on immigration, despite repeated requests on the right and the extreme right. As well as in pensions, as asked by the secretary general of the CGT Sophie Binet on the set of the show.
Source: BFM TV
