In the final stretch before the second round of the municipal elections and as he prepares to launch a “new stage” of his five-year term, Emmanuel Macron consults in all directions. After a meeting with the mayors (including François Baroin, the president of the AMF) this Monday, June 22, he will have lunch Tuesday with the group presidents of the Senate and Gérard Larcher, the president of the upper house of Parliament. Their Assembly counterparts will be received at the Elysée Palace on Thursday at 1 p.m. An hour after Laurent Fabius, the president of the Constitutional Council. Meetings with economists and the social partners are also on the agenda of the Head of State. While a meeting with the former presidents of the Republic is "being stalled" this week, according to the entourage of the head of state.
Postponement of regional, climate referendum?
A sacred tour to feed the thinking of Emmanuel Macron who promised to “reinvent itself” following the coronavirus crisis. "He will consult, listen while he begins a sequence between June 28 and July 14, where he will share with the French a new path," said an Elyos adviser. Officially, this Tuesday, it is the question of decentralization which will be on the menu for debates with senators. Will the president take the opportunity to probe them on his idea to postpone the regional elections scheduled for 2021 to 2022, after the presidential election? "The two subjects are linked," said a ministerial adviser.
As for the referendum envisaged by the executive in the wake of the Citizens' Climate Convention, it is not officially on the agenda. But "it is not excluded that this issue is addressed," said one at the Elysee. And a government source to anticipate: "If he receives Fabius, it is because he does not want to have the referendum recounted by the Constitutional Council. "