"You must not deny yourself any subject, no field, no daring."
This is how Emmanuel Macron opened, this Monday, the States General of Justice.
A disruptive speech, which sounds like a viaticum for the presidential campaign but also delivers a certain criticism of the judiciary.
"You have a mandate for freedom",
he addressed to the thousand participants gathered at Futuroscope in Poitiers and, more precisely, to the independent committee of the Estates General of Justice, which will be responsible for drawing up proposals at the end of February 2022. .
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“Adjustments at the margin are no longer enough. We should not hesitate to consider radical, clear-cut solutions, and to tackle debates hitherto prohibited or ignored, even if it means shaking up established positions, ”
insisted the Head of State, setting a double course: that of
"Restore the civic pact between justice and the nation"
and
"guarantee the efficiency of the public service of justice".
On the menu of his questions without taboos,
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