Emmanuel Macron calls on the parliamentarians of the majority to go through the period with “calm” and “collective spirit”

While the reshuffle is long overdue, and the final arbitrations take place between the Elysée and Matignon, Wednesday July 19, Emmanuel Macron met with the parliamentarians of the majority. They were at the Minister for Relations with Parliament, Franck Riester, for the traditional end-of-session aperitif.

The President of the Republic took up, in part, the spirit of the words used the day before in front of the members of the government. A participant reported to France Télévisions that the Head of State had mentioned a “a bit special context”. “These are never very pleasant moments, but you always have to go through them with the maximum of calm of mind, of the collective, and of respect for each other”said Emmanuel Macron, according to this source.

During a speech of about twenty minutes, the President of the Republic took stock of the particularly busy year with, among other things, the pension reform. “We must not divide us, (…) we will have succeeded in voting nearly 49 texts at the end of the week, we must not give in to the birds of bad omen.”

On ecology, “inventing software for economy and progress”

The Head of State insisted on environmental issues. “On ecology, we must reconcile and invent software for economy and progress”, said the president. Believing that the ecological question was going to become a question of “political recomposition”Emmanuel Macron called for an exit from “anxiety” and a “certain climatoscepticism” for others.

The issue of immigration was also addressed by the President. For him, the executive and the majority cannot “not leave this subject to the opposition”at the risk of letting the extremes “to feed”. The president fired back to back “those who deny the very existence of the problem” and those wish “instrumentalize it” if it was set aside.