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Guillaume Tabard: "Emmanuel Macron still hopes to reform the institutions"

4/21/2023, 5:59:02 PM


COUNTERPOINT - The challenge is not to move a few sliders but to give back to the French a minimum of confidence in public action.

This is one of those subjects on which Emmanuel Macron would like to move forward but without knowing either which end to take it, or, above all, how to bring it to fruition: the institutional question remains central in his eyes.

In his speech on Monday, he spoke about it again.

“Renovating the republican and democratic order also means that we must fight against the persistent feeling that voting is no longer deciding.

In this regard, I will propose major avenues for the operation of our institutions to gain in efficiency and citizen participation”

, declared the Head of State.

A few days earlier, he had asked the President of the Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, and the President of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, to make proposals to him by the end of the famous hundred days.

Sunday, in the "Facing the readers" of the

Parisian

, Macron will reaffirm his desire to move forward on this subject.

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But after?

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