2023-08-29 21:35:36
Eric Ciotti and Laurent Wauquiez in Cannet (Alpes-Maritimes) for the political return of the Republicans, August 27, 2023. OLIVIER MONGE
If Emmanuel Macron invited and defined the seating plan, he left the choice of topics for discussion to his guests, Wednesday August 30, for his “Saint-Denis meetings” with the leaders of the parties represented in Parliament, in order to open the way, “if applicable”, referendums. That’s good, Eric Ciotti has had the word in his mouth for months, the National Rally (RN) for decades. In early June, the president of the Les Républicains (LR) party asked “solemnly” has to be received at the Elysée Palace to discuss the urgent establishment of migration quotas and the calling of a referendum on immigration. A month later, Marine Le Pen in turn requested the same interview, in the midst of a crisis of urban violence.
The box only arrived at the end of the summer to the recipients, without mentioning the address of the Elysée, but that of the Maison d’éducation de la Légion d’honneur in Seine-Saint-Denis. In the “93”, both the right and the extreme right will again have the opportunity to speak with one voice, this time in the same room. The nuances are thin: the deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes calls for a referendum on a constitutional reform, a prerequisite according to him essential to more repressive measures against immigration.
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Jordan Bardella, he wants to put back on the table the referendum on immigration carried by the RN during the presidential campaign of 2022, at the time considered incompatible with the supreme text by a majority of constitutionalists. He even found a date: June 9, 2024, at the same time as the European elections. The RN MEP says he is part of an approach “firm but constructive opposition”, when M. Ciotti repeats that “LR is a government party, always ready to debate”. The Niçois does not want to play “the first violins of the symphony of immobility”Jordan Bardella dit au Point that it will not be “not the crutch of a president looking for a second wind”.
Macron’s communication strategy
The entourages of the two men are not fooled by the communication strategy of the President of the Republic. Gather the oppositions, pretend to consult them to better discard on them later in case of failure. “We made concrete proposals in the spring and in the absence of their recovery, we cannot condone this impotence”, warns the LR deputy for Isère, Yannick Neuder. However, there is no longer any question for the moment of threatening the government with a motion of censure in favor of the future immigration bill, as Olivier Marleix, president of the LR deputies, did in an interview noticed at the JDDin mai.
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