As we announced on Thursday, parties, unions and civil society actors are invited to a new meeting of the National Council for Refoundation (CNR), on December 12 at the Élysée.
It will be a question of making a “point of stage” on the means of reforming the public services, three months after a first meeting largely boycotted.
The CNR, which aims to reform France differently, through consultation, was launched on September 8 in Marcoussis (Essonne) and has since been broken down into multiple local CNRs thematic on health, education, housing or digital .
“We have set ourselves a clear ambition (…) to act as a Nation, without denying our differences but overcoming our differences whenever the general interest requires it;
act responsibly, to make major transitions a success and restructure our public services”, writes Emmanuel Macron, in this invitation.
“The French expect action and answers”.
The founding session of the CNR in Marcoussis had been boycotted by all the opposition parties and a good part of the unions who see above all in this tool a means for the president to circumvent Parliament, where his camp no longer has an absolute majority. , in an attempt to regain control of the public debate.
"The absent are always wrong", replied Emmanuel Macron after the September boycott, while adding that the door remained "always open".
The Greens will not participate, the CFDT will be
Among the first to react, Les Verts, absent at the inaugural session, indicated on Friday that they would not go to this next session.
The CFDT, already present in Marcoussis, has however confirmed its arrival.
The Elysée insists on the usefulness of this meeting and wants to see in the "thousands of local CNRs, which have been held or are in the process of being held, an initiative which has an echo and succeeds in creating a dynamic”.
Some 11,000 schools have thus engaged in the discussions or will do so in the first quarter of 2023, says the presidency.
A pedagogical innovation fund endowed with 500 million euros will finance projects from the CNRs next year.
For his part, a member of the majority assures that if the opposition parties boycotted the inaugural session, their “herds are present in large numbers in the local CNRs”.
Emmanuel Macron will attend a CNR devoted to education on Monday in Aix-en-Provence and another on health on Thursday in Vienne.
