In a dead end, the best solution is sometimes to reverse.
Expert in the matter, François Hollande undertook on Sunday to recommend the maneuver to Emmanuel Macron for the proposed law on "global security".
In the extension of the demonstrations of Saturday everywhere in France, the demand thus does not relate only to article 24, that which penalizes the malicious distribution of the image of the police force, but on the whole of the text.
"
The debate was badly started, its legislative translation was as inappropriate as it was inappropriate"
, summarizes the former socialist president in an interview with
La Montagne
.
Bad sign for the executive, it is the whole left which is united on the subject, from François Hollande to the rebellious Jean-Luc Mélenchon via the socialist Olivier Faure, the communist Fabien Roussel and the ecologist Yannick Jadot.
On the right, where we rather supported the text, we no longer have any illusions about its future, starting with article 24
"already buried by the government"
according to Xavier Bertrand.
Even within the majority, the hypothesis is also mentioned.
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"I am not closed to anything,
" summarized Sunday the LREM president of the law committee in the Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet.
We have happened to modify, delete articles. ”
A perspective that we reject Place Beauvau.
"The withdrawal of article 24 is not on the agenda,"
assures a close friend of the Minister of the Interior.
There is no question of removing it at this stage. ”
Gérald Darmanin will defend him on Monday before the Law Commission of the National Assembly, which hears him after the institutional slump at the end of last week.
Fury in the majority
Weakened by the broadcast of the video of a beating of music producer Michel Zecler by four police officers, the proposed law on comprehensive security and its article 24 also suffered the clumsiness of the executive.
In an attempt to break the deadlock, the Prime Minister proposed the establishment of a commission to rewrite article 24. The initiative provoked the fury of the deputies of the majority, the President of the National Assembly Richard Ferrand and that of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, going so far as to write to Jean Castex to remind him that the writing of the law was the sole responsibility of Parliament.
Despite this strong turbulence, the executive is trying to keep the bill on track.
I ask the Government to quickly make proposals to me to reaffirm the bond of trust that must naturally exist between the French and those who protect them and to fight more effectively against all forms of discrimination.
Emmanuel Macron, on his Facebook account
“We still have months of work ahead of us. Then, the Constitutional Council will be seized,
explained in the
JDD
the Minister of Relations with the Parliament, Marc Fesneau.
All guarantees are taken for a peaceful debate. ”
So much for declarations of intent.
But behind the scenes, the executive searched for the way out all weekend.
Emmanuel Macron had marked the ground as early as Friday evening by posting a text on his Facebook account to be indignant at the images of police violence.
"I ask the Government to quickly make proposals to me to reaffirm the bond of trust that must naturally exist between the French and those who protect them and to fight more effectively against all forms of discrimination",
wrote the President of the Republic.
Previously, the Elysee had telephoned Michel Zecler to inquire about him and assure him that what he had experienced was
"a shame"
.
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It is within this framework that, according to our information, the Prime Minister convened Sunday in the middle of the afternoon a political meeting, in Matignon.
Around Jean Castex, several executives of the presidential movement LREM were invited, including Stanislas Guerini, delegate general, Stéphane Séjourné, MEP and advisor to the President of the Republic, and Roland Lescure, spokesperson and chairman of the Economic Affairs Committee at The national assembly.
The political leaders evoked
"the avenues of work to respond to the order"
of the Head of State on police violence and
"the perimeter of the Burguburu commission".
For now, there is no question of retreating in the face of the offensive from the left.
Especially since the right and the far right are waiting in ambush, ready to sue the head of state lax at the slightest sign of retreat.
The whole problem of dead ends.