Alexis Delafontaine
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12:13 p.m., August 30, 2022
Announced following the presidential election, the establishment of a “National Council for Refoundation”, which is to be launched on September 8, is struggling to convince. Gérard Larcher notably announced that he refused to participate, like many other elected officials, on the right and on the left.
Should we create a body to debate on the major issues of the nation? It has been announced, has not yet been launched, but is already shunned. In an interview with several regional dailies, broadcast on the evening of June 3, the President of the Republic announced that he wanted to bring together after the legislative elections a “National Council for Refoundation” (CNR) with the “political, economic, social and associative forces” . The body supposed to bring together elected officials, actors in the field, civil society must be inaugurated on September 8, Emmanuel Macron announced after the ceremony of the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Bormes-les-Mimosas, on August 19.
“It’s a masquerade”
But Gérard Larcher threw a stone into the pond by completely refusing to participate in this gathering. The President of the Senate accuses Emmanuel Macron of wanting to circumvent Parliament with this new Assembly. But Gérard Larcher is not alone. Apart from the majority, on the right as on the left, no one wants to participate in the National Council for Refoundation. Like Jean-Philippe Tanguy, deputy of the National Rally.
“Simply because it’s a masquerade”, he justifies at the microphone of Europe 1. “The President of the Republic is the guarantor of the institutions and the place to discuss the subjects that the President wishes to address is Parliament. But there is no reason to create some kind of new thing that will be in addition to what already exists”.
A lack of coordination and organization
Local elected officials are also very skeptical of the lack of consultation and organization just ten days before the event. Associations of regions, departments and mayors of France will do the bare minimum. While some were not even invited. For its part, the Élysée does not wish to enter into controversy and specifies that it does not know the final list of guests.