Government spokeswoman Olivia Grégoire appeals to other political parties to work on the reform of institutions, this Friday in the program “Ma France” on France Bleu.
A desired reform in a context where abstention is always stronger. “I believe that this is the problem for all of us. With all the players in democratic life, also with the media, with all the opposition groups, with all parliamentarians, with all the political stakeholders, politics in the noble sense, the management of the City”, says Olivia Grégoire.
This campaign promise by Emmanuel Macron in 2017 was presented by the government in 2018. New texts, tabled in Parliament in 2019, have still not been discussed. Olivia Grégoire notably denounced blockages, according to her, concerning proportional dose wanted by Emmanuel Macron for the legislative elections. “The proportional was in the pipes. But pipes that were blocked by the Senate, by the oppositions. We have been aware for several years of the state of disrepair, of democratic shortness of breath that we know”.
We don’t even have time to send out the invitation cards that’s no — Olivia Gregoire
“I am struck to see that when, for example, a so-called transpartisan commission is proposed – that is to say, regardless of the parties, everyone has the right to come and work in the service of this institutional change – we have not even the time to send the invitation cards that it’s no for the National Gathering, that these no for the rebellious, when we normally all agree that there is a problem.”
It therefore calls on all political parties to mobilize on the subject. “Let’s all get together, regardless of the political parties, around a table, make this institutional reform and initiate changes. This is at the heart of the majority program, and in particular the shared initiative referendum that we push.”