2023-09-12 06:00:08
Inflation on food products, rise in fuel prices, housing crisis… Emmanuel Macron’s opponents have as many reasons as in 2022 to loudly demonstrate their opposition and promise a resounding return to the National Assembly. The gradual removal of protective shields financed by the State should even encourage them to raise their voices. And yet, a certain restraint marks the start of the school year: after the pension crisis, the unions have returned to the path of negotiation as if the reform, still so unloved, was no less about to be digested.
Started a year ago amid almost general skepticism, the sessions and consultations of the National Refoundation Council, which bring together certain political, trade union, economic and associative forces on particular themes such as education or health, will continue. at the request of those concerned and extend to new subjects such as mental health, the productive and social model, the response to urban riots, etc.
Almost alone in believing in this approach which was perceived a year ago as a clumsy attempt to circumvent the National Assembly, where he had just lost the absolute majority, the Head of State now wants to make it an instrument transformation of public services in order to better integrate the expectations of the field.
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The parties find themselves involved in the process of the “Saint-Denis meetings”, another democratic innovation which aroused the same skepticism when it was launched on August 30, but which no political group dares to formally endorse. extract. Most party leaders completed on Sunday September 10 the report made by the Head of State of the ten hours of closed-door discussions which brought them together.
They emphasized their expectations and their frustrations, focused on the right on immigration, on the left on purchasing power and ecology, with the aim of not appearing totally trapped by the presidential approach. Those who did not send anything like Manuel Bompard (La France insoumise, LFI) or Jordan Bardella (National Rally, RN) did not, however, claim that they were now putting themselves on the sidelines of an exercise whose proclaimed objective is to improve, through the quest for consensus, the democratic and institutional functioning of the country.
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After a year of heartbreak marked by pension reform and urban riots, we can clearly see the interest that Emmanuel Macron feels in relieving the pressure. In four years, the outgoing president will be accountable for the state of the country and the standoff he engaged in with intermediary bodies and parties in the name of the “revolution” he wanted to accomplish. However, the challenge to the institutions went far when the government used article 49.3 of the Constitution in March to increase retirement to 64 years. Shortly after, the days of violence triggered by the death of Nahel M. on June 27, killed during a refusal to comply, confirmed that the country could disintegrate very quickly.
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