This is what the former president of the Constitutional Council declares in an interview with “Parisien” published on Saturday.
At the end of the “100 days of appeasement” wanted by Emmanuel Macron, is the situation in France less explosive than after the adoption of the pension reform? Jean-Louis Debré, former President of the Constitutional Council (2007-2016), advocates a “dissolution or [un] referendum” in order to “to get out of the current political impasse”in an interview with Parisian released on Saturday. “I think that the return to the sovereign, that is to say to the people, is essential”he believes.
>> “Work”, “republican order”, “progress” … What is the outcome of the “100 days of appeasement” announced by Emmanuel Macron after the pension reform?
The person who chaired the National Assembly between 2002 and 2007 recalls that General de Gaulle had “settled the crisis of 1968 by a return to the sovereign people”with a dissolution of the National Assembly which was nevertheless favorable to him. “You cannot pass texts as important as the pension reform without having a popular consultation”, he insists. In the absence of an absolute majority in the Assembly, the executive had the text adopted by resorting to article 49-3, which makes it possible to escape the vote.
“The French have nothing to do with changes of ministers”
For Jean-Louis Debré, Emmanuel Macron “has locked himself in this slogan of the hundred days, promising an appeasement of the country”. “However, it is clear that these hundred days”decreed on April 17 and whose deadline was set for July 14, “have not lived up to the presidential hopes”believes the one who deplores the “disappearance of national feeling”.
>> “Everyone is waiting and freaking out”: behind the scenes of the hypothetical reshuffle, which is testing the nerves of ministers and advisers
Could a reshuffle calm things down? “The French don’t care about changes of ministers. Besides, we only know about four or five”, he says. The former interior minister of Jacques Chirac (1995-1997) calls for “Strong measures with immediate effects” on “the fundamental problem of purchasing power”And “then, take care of reforming the school, justice, but without going in all directions”.