In a letter sent Friday to party leaders, Emmanuel Macron proposes broadening the referendum to social issues. “He wants to extend it to immigration issues, but not to pension issues, nor to questions of the taxation of superprofits,” notes Patrick Kanner.
“We must stop gadgets like those constantly imagined by the President of the Republic. There are other official places for debate in this country”, reacts Monday November 6 on franceinfo Patrick Kanner, PS senator from the North, president of the socialist, environmentalist and Republican group in the Senate. Emmanuel Macron invited all party leaders to a new “Saint-Denis meeting” with the party leaders, after those of August 30 and October 12.
Patrick Kanner approves the decision of the first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure not to go there. “We must stop the ‘thingies’, as General de Gaulle said. After the Great Debate, the National Council for Refoundation, the citizens’ conventions, we have this unidentified tool on the political level”he points out.
“There is a Parliament, an executive, if we make the institutions function well as they are provided for by the Fifth Republic, and everything will be fine in this country.”
Patrick Kanner, PS senatorat franceinfo
In this letter sent Friday to the leaders of the political parties represented in the Assembly, Emmanuel Macron proposes broadening the referendum to social issues, such as migration issues. “He wants to extend it to immigration issues, but not to pension issues, nor to questions of the taxation of superprofits which could be a source of revenue for the State. So it is a totally unbalanced proposal”he laments. “We are playing with parliamentarians”continues the senator.
A call to centrists
Finally, the socialist senator calls on his centrist colleagues to “responsibility”, as the immigration bill arrives in the Senate chamber on Monday. “We are going to tell them: do you want a completely repressive text or for there to be a possibility of improvement for tens of thousands of workers in our country?”he continues.
The centrists “are a very important element in the Senate”, because “if they only abstained on article 3”which plans to simplify the regularization of workers in professions in shortage, “The Republicans would be able to remove it.” “I am quite optimistic and I don’t see how, on a text like this, we could not find a compromise”had, for his part, declared Hervé Marseille, the leader of the centrist senators, a little earlier on franceinfo.