We had to face the facts. A little over three months after the launch of the National Council for Refoundation (CNR), presented by Emmanuel Macron in June as a “cultural revolution”, the body remains a poorly identified democratic object. A « machin », denounce in chorus the oppositions. But the Head of State does not want to renounce what should illustrate his “new method” of government.
Monday, December 12, faced with persistent doubts, the President of the Republic therefore tried to relaunch his titanic and time-consuming project which aims to bring around the same table political leaders, associations, citizens or civil servants to address the problems of the countries, during the second plenary session of the CNR.
A meeting organized at the Elysée, alongside the president of this body, the boss of the MoDem, François Bayrou, and the prime minister, Elisabeth Borne. “The interest of the method remains”assured Mr. Macron, despite the persistent boycott of all the opposition parties. “The dynamic is fruitful. » In his eyes, the CNR broken down into national and territorial workshops makes it possible to tackle problems without “bureaucratize the consultations”, in “split people by category”.
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Admittedly, since the launch of this tool, which is supposed to allow more “consultation”, on September 8 in Marcoussis (Essonne), more than a thousand field meetings were held to address issues of education, health, old age, biodiversity and youth. But the general public hardly perceives the benefits of these agoras which are scattered over the territory. “For the French, the CNR does not exist”observes Frédéric Dabi, managing director of the IFOP polling institute.
Something is wrong. With this instrument, the Head of State wanted to erase the image of “Jupiter”, which has stuck with him since the first five-year term, by getting closer to the population. But at the same time, it does not break with the verticality of power, nor with the instruments of the Ve Republic which confers important powers on him.
While Elisabeth Borne has triggered a cavalcade of 49.3 since the start of the school year to pass her texts without a vote in a National Assembly, where she only has a relative majority, Emmanuel Macron has again displayed himself, the December 7, during a dinner at the Elysée, like a reformer “straight in his boots”, quick to launch a pension reform at a run without the approval of the unions or any opposition party.
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