Emmanuel Macron organizes his “major political initiative”, this Wednesday, in Saint-Denis, in Seine-Saint-Denis. During these “Saint-Denis meetings”, eleven leaders of political parties will discuss all afternoon around three themes: international relations and the place of France in the world; the institutions ; “how to make a nation” and the authority of the state. The objective being, for the Head of State, to compromise to build legislative texts and potentially lead to a referendum.
Each of the party leaders is invited to come up with proposals. Without surprise, the left intends to defend social measures When the right and the far right will campaign for a referendum on immigration.
But even before the start of these “Saint-Denis meetings”, a point is debated: the difference in treatment of the president vis-à-vis the different parties. Emmanuel Macron has indeed spoken by telephone in recent days with the boss of the Republicans, Éric Ciotti, and, for the first time, with the president of the National Rally Jordan Bardella. The representatives of the left-wing parties were joined by advisers to the president.
To view this Twitter content, you must accept Social Media cookies.
These cookies make it possible to share or react directly on the social networks to which you are connected or to integrate content initially posted on these social networks. They also allow social networks to use your visits to our sites and applications for the purposes of personalization and advertising targeting.
Manage my choices I authorize
The RN: immigration, security, school
For the first time, Emmanuel Macron spoke with Jordan Bardella on the phone last Thursday. A fifteen-minute interview.
The president of the RN then sent a letter to the head of state, with various proposals for these “Saint-Denis meetings”. He says he wants to focus on “three main pillars: immigration policy and the safety of French people, purchasing power and competitiveness, and finally the school of the Republic”.
He wants the French to be consulted on our migration policy” on June 9, 2024, at the same time as the European elections. “There can be no national and republican upsurge without an awareness of the dangers of an immigration of people and without a complete change of this policy, towards more firmness, requirement and control“, he asserts, assuring that it is not a subject which divides but which makes”on the contrary, the object of a broad consensus”.
To view this Twitter content, you must accept Social Media cookies.
These cookies make it possible to share or react directly on the social networks to which you are connected or to integrate content initially posted on these social networks. They also allow social networks to use your visits to our sites and applications for the purposes of personalization and advertising targeting.
Manage my choices I authorize
The RN also offers “that a moratorium on any increase in taxes and duties be decreed by the end of your five-year term” as well as “the reduction of energy bills and fuel prices, the tax exemption of salary increases of up to 10%, and the abolition of the CVAE for companies”.
On the school, he militates for “a redesign of school curricula“by emphasizing fundamental learning – French language, science and “nation’s history“-, for an increase in teachers’ salaries, for the “revaluation of manual trades” or for “the end of the single college“.
The Republicans: a referendum on immigration
Republican boss Eric Ciotti also received a call from Emmanuel Macron. This Wednesday, he intends to reiterate a divisive proposal to him: submit to the vote of the French a major revision of the constitution which would then make it possible to organize a referendum on immigration and to reform in depth the conditions of access to the right of asylum and to French nationality. “We must immediately give the floor back to the people through the referendum!“, proclaimed the number one of the Les Républicains party during his political comeback last Sunday in Le Cannet.
It would then be a direct referendum, on the constitutional bill tabled by the LRs in the spring, with a single question and not a “preferendum“, which allows you to ask several questions to the French, as mentioned by the government spokesperson, Olivier Véran. “What I fear is that the use of multiple-choice questions aims to exonerate the Head of State from all responsibility, but I think that the crisis of democracy is precisely because the French feel that their vote no longer serves any purpose, that they no longer count for anything and that the elected officials exonerate themselves from all responsibility”explains the boss of the group in the Senate, Bruno Retailleau.
This Wednesday, Eric Ciotti will also ask for the strengthening of security and justice, the removal of all “rights for illegal immigrants“, the compulsory uniform at school and college or even the abolition of allowances for “parents who have failed in their duties“.
La Nupes: social measures to deal with inflation
The Nupes parties indicate that they have not received a call from Emmanuel Macron. This Wednesday, they will present him with a series of proposals “in the interest of the people“, in particular the difficulties of recruitment in the National Education, the increase in the price of school supplies, the cost of student life, the price of electricity, fuel and inflation on food products.
Ecology will also be discussed. She “was not mentioned once in this letter [l’invitation d’Emmanuel Macron, NDLR], which is of great concern to us”raised Marine Tondelier, national secretary of EELV. “And then social issues also have a very small place. We understand that if we don’t do it, no one will do it for us.”
Finally, left-wing parties call for referendum on pension reform, “the only referendum project that French women and men are waiting for”according to them.
To view this Twitter content, you must accept Social Media cookies.
These cookies make it possible to share or react directly on the social networks to which you are connected or to integrate content initially posted on these social networks. They also allow social networks to use your visits to our sites and applications for the purposes of personalization and advertising targeting.
Manage my choices I authorize
The Radical Party: an institutional and territorial reform
The Radical Party, for its part, will be represented on Wednesday by its president Laurent Hénart. He will campaign for a dozen measures aimed at “lead the institutional and territorial reform project”. These include establishing the non-renewable seven-year term, proportional representation for legislative elections or even decentralization and deconcentration of state services.
To “ensure the cohesion of the Nation”, the Radical Party will also propose “a compulsory citizen reserve whose purpose is to prepare all our fellow citizens for the management of “high intensity crises to come” or a “support for the establishment of a universal income and a new model for the organization of working time”.
The UDI: decentralization and autonomy
Hervé Marseille, president of the UDI, will also arrive with the idea of defending decentralization and “the return to greater fiscal autonomy for communities”, he indicates, stressing that “these are subjects which concern greatly the communities, on the front line” during the Covid and the riots. The president of the UDI also wants to put on the table the issues of access to housing and dependency of seniors.
As for the Modem, Renaissance and Horizons, the leaders of these parties were to have dinner with Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday evening to take stock before these “Saint-Denis meetings”.
#Meetings #SaintDenis #proposals #party #leaders #luggage
