“Be proud to be amateurs! “, Trumpeted the Head of State before the deputies of his majority. Voire. In a small committee, Emmanuel Macron intends to learn the lessons of the legal muddles on the pension reform and asked his troops to better border the laws. Thus he recalled several measures of the plan against communitarianism, which he did not consider sufficiently successful in terms of freedoms.
The remonstrances of the Council of State went through there. At the end of January, the sages of the Palais-Royal had shattered the pension bill, brandishing “incomplete” financial projections, a future system that was not really universal, and even questioning the constitutionality of the project.
"Édouard Philippe and Benoît Ribadeau-Dumas ( Editor's note: his cabin manager t) are two stars of the Council of State, to be planted like that ...", suffocates an intimate of the president. "Everything is so badly put together!" Echoes an echo of a regular at the Elysée Palace, while an important minister regrets “governance that is too rough”.
"State Councilors are polite people, not revolutionaries"
In the majority, some accuse the Council of State (which must be consulted on draft laws before their examination in the Council of Ministers) of setting itself up as a counterweight. "I don't know if they are in politics, but it's a political signal. That means that they have the government with the eye ", notes an official of the group LREM in the Assembly, which judges the opinion on the pensions" unnecessarily hard ".
A trial that ulcers in the corridors of the Palais-Royal, where the country's highest legal experts sit. "The Council of State does its job, that's all! He says the right. State councilors are polite people, not revolutionaries. There is no political reading grid ”, one is offended within the venerable institution. To which we add, for all practical purposes: "Here, there are no amateurs, only servants of the State!" "