2023-11-05 20:48:10
As he had announced, President Emmanuel Macron wrote to the various heads of French political parties to invite them to a new meeting in Saint-Denis on November 17, indicated on X (formerly Twitter), the boss of EELV Marine Tondelier. “The party leaders have just been invited again by the President of the Republic to a meeting in Saint-Denis on November 17,” she wrote, information confirmed by AFP by the entourage of another party official.
In his letter to party leaders, the president proposes lowering the threshold to one million voters, compared to nearly 5 million currently, to allow the organization of a shared initiative referendum. Emmanuel Macron suggests also lowering the number of parliamentarians required (93 against 185) and also “giving citizens the possibility of taking the initiative” of this RIP, “while today only parliamentarians can launch the procedure “. Introduced in a constitutional reform in 2008, no RIP has yet been successful.
In substance, he also proposes to modify the Constitution to broaden the scope of the referendum to “societal questions”, in order to be able to submit to direct universal suffrage texts relating in particular to immigration. “It would involve both taking up bills relating to so-called ‘societal’ issues such as the end of life sometimes mentioned, but also broader reforms affecting several intertwined aspects, as is the case migration issues which concern sovereign, economic, social or even diplomatic matters”.
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