Macron’s Direct Exchanges with Opposition Parties and Future Constitutional Reform

The head of state once again invited the opposition parties to direct exchanges, this time without the PS or LR. On the menu: a future constitutional reform, but no majority emerged to commit to it.

Ten hours and wheelbarrows of discussions and a funeral? Friday, at the end of a new edition of the Macronian exercise of direct exchanges with the oppositions – at least a small half, LR, LFI and the PS having decided to avoid the meeting – no majority emerged to commit to the path of reform of the Constitution. However, it was the main opening that the Head of State had outlined after a first exercise of this kind, on August 30. On the menu for this third round in Saint-Denis – the party leaders were invited to the Elysée on October 12 to discuss the situation in Israel – the extension of article 11 of the Constitution to social issues such as immigration or the end of life, was however discussed at length. Before stumbling upon the absence of a majority to modify it. “There will be no referendum on immigration”rejoiced Marine Tondelier (the Ecologists, e