Rather than future “blockages”, Emmanuel Macron offers the French to participate in the debates of the CNR to “transform” the country.
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De participatory democracy rather than “blockages”. Here is what Emmanuel Macron proposes to the French by inviting them to participate in the debates of the National Council for Refoundation (CNR), whose objective is to “transform” the country “against and against all blockages”. In a 15-minute video posted on YouTube, the president said, “We can change lives if we choose to. […] I will be by your side to do so, against all obstacles. The CNR was launched on Monday October 3 on the themes of health and education. Two issues deemed “priority” by the president. “I am counting on you with great enthusiasm, conviction and strength” in order to “find the right solutions in an intelligent way, all together, far from posturing, conservatism, far from debates which are sometimes caricatural”, but in learning “ideas, initiatives and changes” sometimes “very local”, declared Emmanuel Macron.
“A new method” of governing
The president therefore calls on the French to connect to the conseil-refondation.fr platform to “contribute their ideas” on “ecology, school, health, demography, work”, main themes of the CNR.
Promising “a new method” of governing, Emmanuel Macron had launched the CNR on September 8 in Marcoussis (Essonne) in the presence of representatives of communities, unions and associations, but without opposition leaders, who had denounced a “ com operation”. Its objective is based on “more consensus, a common framework of thought and action and concrete solutions for each and every one of you”, he explains in the video.
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He says he felt, during his travels, “a desire [des Français] to be associated, but not simply at election time”, to “participate in decision-making” so that the citizen is “not someone on whom decisions are going to be imposed”.
On education, Emmanuel Macron gives as an example the operation launched in September 2021 to give more initiatives to schools in Marseille. “From the beginning of next year, there will be concrete answers and things that will change,” he promises. The Ministry of Education was to begin training for representatives of the academies on Monday, then Minister Pap Ndiaye was to visit schools in Eure-et-Loir and Martinique, according to the Élysée.
On health, the other major project, the debate was to be launched in the Sarthe by Minister François Braun and Deputy Minister Agnès Firmin-Le Bodo. Citing the question of medical deserts, Emmanuel Macron affirms “that there is not an answer at the national level”, but “thousands, as many as living areas”.
His video was criticized by Jean-Luc Mélenchon (LFI), for which “Macron chatters” with “an above-ground and abstruse jargon”.