The National Council for the Refoundation of Emmanuel Macron boycotted by all opposition

The National Council of the Resistance was unanimous. To the point of making history. Emmanuel Macron’s CNR, the National Council for Refoundation, hoped to follow in its wake, but seems to have already failed to bring opposition together around the table. On September 8, the day of the back-to-school meeting of this new organization, in Marcoussis (Essonne), many guests have already indicated that they will not be present. Neither the parties composing the Nupes nor the RN nor the Republicans should participate in the CNR.

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In July, government spokesman Olivier Véran had drawn the first outlines of this CNR, for which he is responsible as Minister Delegate for Democratic Renewal. This body will aim toshare diagnoses nationwide on major issues», ranging from health to education and the environment. They are invited “leaders of political parties, leaders of parliamentary groups, representatives of associations of elected representatives of the territories, representatives of intermediary bodies, trade unions in partnership with the Economic, Social and Environmental Council“. But among the leaders of political parties and parliamentary opposition groups, it is the policy of the empty chair that is announced, to the great displeasure of Olivier Véran. “I find it hard to understand that we can refuse the outstretched hand to come and talk and discuss.»

“An umpteenth committee that bypasses Parliament”

In a letter to the President of the Republic revealed by Le Figaro the President LR of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, announces to the Head of State that he will not participate in the launch of the CNR and calls “clarity and respect for the institutional prerogatives of each”. “I think that this body cannot achieve the renovation of democracy to which you aspire”writes the parliamentarian, for whom “the mechanisms of participatory democracy can contribute to informing national representation, but they can in no way replace it”. According to him, “to want to bring together in the same body parliamentarians, the only ones constitutionally empowered to pass the law and control the executive, and representatives of civil society, whether economic, social, environmental, representations of associations of local elected officials or associations, can only result in a confusion of roles”.

On the left, all the main parties refused the invitation, with the Communists and the Ecologists following in the footsteps of the Insoumis. On France InfoYannick Jadot criticizes this Wednesday the invitation of the President of the Republic to “make a council where we will deal with everything», and refuses to participate in what he sees as «yet another committee of which no one knows how it is structured, what it will give, which bypasses Parliament and the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (CESE)“. He also recalls that the ESEC already brings togetherall social forces“. For the ecologist, with this CNR, “it is always the will to circumvent, to set up devices which are useless“.

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Before the legislative elections, Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon had themselves hinted that they would not participate in the CNR. On June 3, the RN candidate denounced a “yet another communication device that Emmanuel Macron has found to make people believe that he will change his policy and his way of governing“. The next day, Jean-Luc Mélenchon affirms that after “the first season of the big blabla“, the Great Debate and the Citizen’s Climate Convention, Emmanuel Macron persists and signs with the CNR, “the second season of the big blabla“. A season that will start next week, but in a smaller committee than expected.