Edouard Philippe will not go to the National Council for Refoundation

The National Refoundation Council is to be launched on September 8. It will bring together professionals and citizens to study various issues, including school and health.

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Edouard Philippe will not go to the National Council for Refoundation (CNR), franceinfo learned on Wednesday August 31, confirming information from RMC. Officially, the former Prime Minister and mayor Horizons of Le Havre wants to give way to another local elected official, the mayor of Albi, to represent him. Stéphanie Guiraud-Chaumeil is also the regional referent of the Horizons party for Occitanie.

This CNR, wanted by Emmanuel Macron, must bring together professionals and citizens to study various files, in particular school and health from September 8. If the CFE-CGC indicated that it would participate well in this body, the president of the union explained, to franceinfo Wednesday, not to see how this initiative of the head of state would make it possible to move forward on social reforms.

On the political side, the four formations of the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) refuse to participate in this National Council for Refoundation. Gérard Larcher, the president of the Senate, does not want to participate either. A decision that the government spokesperson indicated on Tuesday to franceinfo, to have “hard to understand”.


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