Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that he did not intend to dissolve the National Assembly, reshuffle the government, or call a referendum on his pension reform in France to put an end to the protest, participants in a meeting told AFP. from the presidential camp to the Élysée.
“No dissolution, no reshuffle, no referendum”, summarized one of these participants at the end of this meeting bringing together the tenors of the government and the leaders of Macronie. “Not to date,” confirmed a minister who was present.
According to one of these participants, the French president asked his troops to make “within two to three weeks maximum” “proposals” for a “change of method and agenda of reforms”.
This framework of the presidential camp estimated that Emmanuel Macron wanted to “identify some clear projects, on a clear agenda”, for example until the 2024 Summer Olympics, “with a clear method”, to “avoid finding yourself in a challenge to the legitimacy of a text”.
The French president, who is due to speak on Wednesday in a long-awaited television interview, said he would speak again “later”, said an executive from his parliamentary camp. He asked to reform with “fewer laws and more regulations” in the absence of an absolute majority in the National Assembly, he said.