A few days after Emmanuel Macron's meeting with party leaders, the second person of the State after the President of the Republic, spoke in the columns of Le Parisien, calling bluntly for a constitutional reform in terms of immigration.
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Without constitutional reform, we will be able to move forward, but impossible for asylum applications to be made outside French territory, to introduce quotas or to modify the management of family reunification," said Gérard Larcher, who said he was in favour of holding a referendum on the matter.
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The elected representative of the party The Republicans warned: "We open the door to the far right if we still deceive the French on this subject." Above all, the senator wanted to be critical of the successive consultations undertaken by Emmanuel Macron since the beginning of his first term, from the "great debate" to the meetings of the head of state with political parties through "the citizen conference on the climate or the national council of the refoundation".
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Be careful that once again these 'meetings of Saint-Denis' lead to nothing, "he warned, evoking a "communication exercise" in the face of the "demand for results" of voters. "If it's just gesticulation, we will all pay dearly collectively. Because the French no longer trust us." Gérard Larcher also pushed the President of the Republic to seize the reform of decentralization or to "make savings" during the next budget with the aim of a "return to balance".
Regarding the next presidential election, the senator said that "the macronist right [would] no longer exist" at the end of the two mandates of Emmanuel Macron who "will not be able to stand again". "Laurent Wauquiez has the qualities to be our candidate, others have them too," he also replied following a question about the "natural candidate of the right".