When he makes the announcement, Emmanuel Macron is unaware of the fate that awaits his troops, who have returned to battle for the legislative elections.
Still confident of the idea of having a solid majority in the Assembly, he announced on June 3 his desire to create a “National Council for Refoundation” (CNR).
Named in reference to the National Resistance Council, set up during the Second World War to coordinate the movements of the French interior Resistance, it is one of the examples of the new method desired by the Head of State, based on more consultation.
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Quickly, the oppositions rise to the crenel.
The right, in particular, denounces the advent of a new democratic gadget, distorting the role of Parliament.
Critics fuse even in the rows of the majority, where one blows with the evocation of this
“umpteenth tool”.
“The president operates his moult.
It is the transformation of Jupiter into Hephaestus”,
observes an important minister, with a touch of irony
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