Former minister Les Républicains (LR) and ex-chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, was the guest of “8:30 am franceinfo”, on June 22. He answered questions from Sahlia Brakhlia and Marc Fauvelle.
Elisabeth Borne is “legitimate”
The Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne “is legitimate because it is the President of the Republic who appointed it. The question is to do what? What policy?”reacts Michel Barnier, member of the Republicans. “Are we going to change our method, have respect for the National Assembly, for the French, for the unions, for the intermediary bodies. Are we going to change our policy? That’s the question “continues the former minister.
“We saw a solitary, arrogant power, which decided everything, all by itself, which is why Emmanuel Macron lost these legislative elections, believes Michel Barnier. This way of proceeding can be seen in particular “in this last proposal” with “this National Council for Refoundation, as if Parliament did not count”continues the former minister and former chief Brexit negotiator.
A referendum on immigration?
“I think Mr. Macron would be well advised, if he hears the popular sentiment expressed last Sunday, to propose a referendum on this immigration issue”, also estimated Michel Barnier. At the end of the second round of legislative elections, the National Rally obtained 89 deputies in the National Assembly. According to him, we must ask the French the question: “Immigrant quotas and the control of immigration that our country needs, it’s not fair to let everyone come into our country, so that then people are mistreated or not well received, and it’s not fair to suggest that everyone can come to France, as is the case today”.