“We will have to get everyone on board because we are not changing the country since the Élysée”, warns the Abbé Pierre Foundation

“We will have to give us guarantees and get everyone on board because we cannot change the country since the Élysée“, warned Thursday, September 8 on franceinfo Christophe Robert, general delegate of the Abbé-Pierre Foundation, who agreed to participate in the National Council for Refoundation launched this Thursday by Emmanuel Macron.

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This body is presented by the Head of State as a new way of governing in consultation with the living forces of the nation in order to reflect on future societal reforms. Shunned by the opposition parties and some unions such as the CGT and FO in particular, the Abbé-Pierre Foundation did not want to play the policy of the empty chair.

“The government, the President of the Republic, tells us ‘we want to govern differently from what we did during the first five-year term’. Banco because you have to!“, says Christophe Robert. “I am told ‘do you still believe in it’? It must ! It must ! We can’t leave this country like this. It needs to be revitalized. We have the capacity to act“, he assures.

Christopher Robert”goes there with a huge ambition“, but “without angelism“. He does not hesitate to put pressure on the executive: “There will have to be good objectives, good financial means. We will have to give us guarantees and get everyone on board because we cannot change the country since the Élysée. We change it in the territories by mobilizing the living forces, the associations“, he asserts.