A democratic innovation? Or is it a purely communicative measure, as condemned by the opposition? French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday, National Reestablishment Council (CNR), an organization that is questioned as it plans to change the way it is governed. The centrist leader, who has been harshly criticized for his vertical use of power and even stigmatized as “authoritarian” by his opponents, promised a “new method” during his spring presidential campaign. Now he is trying to fulfill his promise with the creation of this criticized organ.
Macron announced that these intentions would be reflected in the National Reestablishment Council in May following his re-election. name inspired by the National Council of Resistance Founder of the welfare state in France after World War II. The purpose of the new National Council is to political parties, trade unions, employers’ organizations and associations discuss possible measures to deal with successive crises (covid-19, energy crisis, climate emergency, etc.). In total, there will be about 40 representatives of this sample. And it will address five issues: full employment, education, health, ecological transition and how to ensure a decent life for the elderly.
Online consultations and possible referendums
“I want to place our citizens at the heart of the great decisions of the nation,” Macron said at a press conference before the first meeting of this body, held in Marcoussis, in the south of the Paris region. The President announced that they will start from this week. online consultation Putting the French at the center of the “great decisions of the nation”.
“I want discussions that are open on the ground and online. All this deserves transparency,” Macron said. Nor did he exclude that the decisions taken by this Council resulted in: holding a referendum. If the process that started today leads us to this, we will do it.” He also confirmed the organization in the coming months. citizen agreement on euthanasia and the fact of dying with dignity.
In his first term, the president had promised to call a referendum to include the fight against climate change in the Constitution. A referendum that never took place due to opposition from the Senate, dominated by Republicans (LR, PP’s partners in France). Macron also supported some initiatives to give French presidential democracy more horizontality. representation crisisevidenced by the yellow vest rebellion. These attempts, however, did not excite the French. This is what happened in the call “great discussion”Accused of being a covert campaign for the Europeans of 2019.
Skip the parliament
CNR also now starts with the crossed leg. All Opposition parties boycotted first meeting and only Macron-related formations participated in it. Nor were some of the most important unions, such as the CGT, Force Ouvrière, or Solidaires. There is a “civil society forum” embodied in the “representative democracy” Parliament and already in the Economic, Social and Environmental Council, criticizing the head of the Senate, Gérard Larcher (from the Republican right), who did not take part in the action. In fact, the opposition accuses the president of creating this new body to circumvent the National Assembly, which lost an absolute majority in June’s legislative elections.
“52 representatives of political forces, unions and public officials were invited, 40 of them are here. 12 absentee mistakes”, the president replied to the critics. Macron still prefers to see the glass half full. must go a long way lose your reputation as a president who rules alone and from top to toe.
Source: Informacion
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