“I ate very well!
With the restaurants closed and the restrictive measures that prevent us from being usually more than six, it would have been a shame not to come… ”, coward, visibly sated, a participant in the lunch held this Tuesday at the 'Elysium.
Health constraints oblige, it is in the village hall of the presidential palace that Emmanuel Macron invited the nine group presidents of the National Assembly.
From Jean-Luc Mélenchon (LFI) to Damien Abad (LR), including Christophe Castaner for the LREM majority, Valérie Rabault (PS) or even the Modem Patrick Mignola.
So far from each other around the huge table, it took a microphone for everyone to be heard ...
This meeting, which lasted an hour and a half, had one objective for the president: to take the pulse of the main political parties in the Assembly, while the year 2020 ends against the backdrop of an extraordinary health and economic crisis. .
Between the pot-au-feu served as a main course and cream puffs for dessert, he also took the opportunity to slip in his concerns of the moment.
The crisis, inevitably, and especially the anger of certain professions hit by the restrictive measures, in particular among the “non-essential activities” which he recognized that the term was “fatal”.
"A year of great vigilance"
Then, of course, a long release on the question of tests and vaccines.
If the president recalled that that of the Pfizer laboratory would be well administered for the most fragile people from the beginning of next year, the result is however more vague.
Those of Moderna and Sanofi will indeed be deployed for the general public.
But in what horizon, when the latter do not yet have their marketing authorization?
"He has a fear, is that we start to vaccinate, and at the same time we relive a viral outbreak across the country," said a participant.
"This means that we are going to have real decisions to make, important political choices", slipped the president, insisting on the fact that "2021 will remain a year of great vigilance, where efforts and restrictions will have to be maintained" .
As for the tests, he warned: “It is not the absolute guarantee.
The countries which wanted to generalize them by thinking that that would solve everything have also failed.
This is proof that this is not the alternative to confinement ", relativized the Head of State, announcing that a decree would be taken" in the coming days to allow the deployment of saliva tests ", while specifying that they are only effective for symptomatic cases.
"The term guarantee will be mentioned in black and white in the text"
Then in a "very courteous and republican atmosphere", according to several participants, the president chained the other subjects, as the questions asked around the table.
In particular on the modification of article 1 of the Constitution to integrate the defense of the climate and the preservation of the environment.
“The term
guarantee
will be mentioned in black and white in the text.
It is not neutral, it will even have very strong legal consequences, ”he said.
Concern after the fact of a group president: “This also means that the Constitutional Council may in the future break a law that does not respect this commitment.
The risk with that is to open a Pandora's box… ”.
“What about the debt?
What are you doing?
It must be deleted!
“, Undertakes Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Macron then returns a rule of law, and the "framework of European treaties" which simply does not allow it.
Patrick Mignola then unveils a MoDem initiative, namely the drafting of three white papers, devoted to the state of public freedoms in France, inequalities, then growth.
"Are you going to go, Mr. Chairman?"
Then the discussion follows on the question of young people, raised by Valérie Rabault.
“It's a real subject.
I am fully aware of the suffering they are going through and of their destitution, ”the tenant of the Elysee said, entrusting particularly monitoring the suicide rate in this category of the population.
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"We have in particular a subject on students far from home, also for foreign students who are completely isolated", pointed out Emmanuel Macron in particular, before being questioned on a completely different subject: the constitutional revision and the dose of proportional .
"Are you going to go, Mr. Chairman?"
“Asks UDI Jean-Christophe Lagarde.
" Why not.
I am not closed.
But let's not forget that we have health and economic emergencies, we will have to see if, by next June, it is possible.
But if we can do it, we will do it, ”he said, without a firm promise, however, and before a last coffee.
