“A purpose to be found while walking”

It’s easier to say what the NRC will not be that to understand what it will be. It won’t be a big social conference; Emmanuel Macron, he confides, hates these imposed figures where the positions of each other are known in advance and do not change at the exit. It will not be a second Parliament; even majority MPs would not accept it. It will not be an enlarged Economic, Social and Environmental Council; it is not because consultation bodies for the actors of society already exist that we should not create others. It will not be a High Commission for Planning in the shorter term; we will indeed draw the France of tomorrow, but differently. This will not be a new edition of a great national debate; it will be a question of getting everyone to talk, of getting everyone to listen to each other, of sharing diagnoses, but via representative actors, or supposed to be such.

We see it, invoking the memory of the National Council of Resistance