Failing to complete the constitutional revision he promised at the start of the five-year term, Emmanuel Macron dreams of imposing an institutional revolution for the end of his mandate. The referendum of a new type which could validate the proposals of the Citizens' Convention would be the symbol. And would sign the turnaround of a man elected as herald of a restored “Jupiterian” presidency, seeking to rebound as the godfather of an invented participative democracy.
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We remember how the President of the Republic came out of the trap of the crisis of "yellow vests" by launching the great national debate, an innovative and unprecedented exercise, despite the Macronian taste for long monologues. The Citizen Climate Convention was the fruit, if not unique at least the most visible, of this debate. Here again, an unprecedented method: the draw of 150 people representative of French society, responsible for formulating proposals that the Head of State had undertaken to take up
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