French President Emmanuel Macron called on all political forces represented in Parliament on Wednesday, August 30, to seek a new consensus that will help the government break the political deadlock resulting from being a minority in the meeting.
This Saturday, Macron made official the invitation he had already made in a mid-summer speech when he addressed the country and pledged to take “the political initiative” after a tense semester marked by the crisis over pension reforms and the gulf of urban violence in late June following the death of teenager Nahel, shot by a police officer.
“The ambition will be to reach agreement on lines of action that can be concretely and quickly translated (…) into the jointly drafted legal texts”said Macron, who assured his gesture was “an outstretched hand of loyalty”.
The letter was sent to all political groups represented in the National Assembly, including Marine Le Pen’s far right and Jean-Luc Mélénchon’s radical left, France Insubmissa, who initially wanted to exclude the president as “anti-republican,” despite both sides . being the second and third most represented.
The French president, whose government faces two major legislative challenges in the last quarter of 2023, namely the immigration law and the 2024 budget, theoretically has few allies to offset his relative majority in the legislature.
With the exception of Le Pen’s National Union (RN) and unsubmissive France, which position themselves as opponents of Macron’s liberal project, socialists and ecologists disagree on most presidential projects.
The Republicans (traditionally right) are the party that would in principle have more points of convergence with the majority backing the head of state (Renascença and centrist allies), but its current leadership, led by Éric Ciotti, has sought to distance itself from the party. from Macron, not to lose more votes on the right for Le Pen.
Source: DN
