The “National Refoundation Council” “is just another gimmick”estimated on Saturday June 4 on franceinfo François-Xavier Bellamy, MEP Les Républicains, while in an interview given to several titles in the regional daily press, the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron announced the creation of this National Council for Refoundation composed of elected officials, associations and citizens drawn by lot.
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“Emmanuel Macron’s second term has barely begun when we can’t get enough of this new communication trick”criticizes François-Xavier Bellamy who calls on the President of the Republic to start “by respecting what already exists within our institutions, our Constitution”. The head of state “tells us: ‘I’m going to stop deciding everything on my own, now we’re going to get into a big permanent debate’, but Emmanuel Macron is on the verge of inventing the National Assembly!”quips the MEP.
“Let Emmanuel Macron start by respecting what already exists. He tells us “I am going to stop deciding everything on my own, we are going to enter into the great permanent debate”. Emmanuel Macron is on the verge of inventing the National Assembly”, criticizes François-Xavier Bellamy. pic.twitter.com/un62A5TnSi
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About this body clearly inspired by the National Council of Resistance, François-Xavier Bellamy speaks of a “rather mediocre political recovery” and adds: “There is something a little indecent in trying to transpose such an era into our own”. According to the elected LR, if our time is “in the face of immense challenges” and “a very deep crisis”that “has nothing to do with what the resistance fighters of the Second World War had to face”.
“Emmanuel Macron has neutralized the National Assembly”further denounces the MEP who develops: “While he is having fun with this Council that everyone is going to talk about, that we are going to comment on ad infinitum, he is asking the future deputies of his majority to sign a charter by which they undertake to support whatever he decides”. François-Xavier Bellamy refers to the five-year terms of Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande who were to “count with parliamentarians who had a thickness, a political independence”.
E. Macron wants to create a “National Refoundation Council” ➡️ “Comparison is not right. No one is fooled. There is something indecent in transposing such an era into ours”, for François-Xavier Bellamy. “That’s a pretty poor political payback.” pic.twitter.com/ixBI09MV28
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