Like his colleague senator Bruno Retailleau, the president of the LR deputies, Olivier Marleix, announced on Wednesday July 20 his “
refusal to participate
” in the National Council for Refoundation (CNR) wanted by Emmanuel Macron.
“
It is out of the question to participate in all this, that the President of the Republic do the institutional work which must be his, he is the guardian of the institutions, and that he respects the Parliament that the French have designated
”, a- he denounced on Franceinfo.
"Bypassing National Representation"
In his interview of July 14, the President of the Republic confirmed that he wanted to launch his National Council for Refoundation "
from the end of the summer
" and thus use "
all the instruments so that our democracy is a living democracy
" .
.
According to a government source, the CNR, a new institution which must bring together political, economic, social, associative forces as well as elected representatives of the territories, should be launched the second week of September.
"
The president did not understand the message of the French to oppose him with a National Assembly composed overwhelmingly, 327 deputies out of 577, of opponents by asking him to listen to parliamentarians, to listen to national representation
, criticized Olivier Marleix.
His idea of circumventing national representation, as he has done systematically with all the intermediate bodies in this country for five years, I think the French no longer want it
.
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Sunday, the president of the senators LR, Bruno Retailleau, had opposed the same end of inadmissibility in an interview with the
JDD.
“
It's a bad idea.
It's part of Macron's gadgets to circumvent and weaken Parliament.
This is the reason why my group in the Senate will not sit there
, ”he warned.