Civilized debates, some proposals for the continuation of the five-year term and a Prime Minister determined to "accelerate" after the pension reform: Renaissance united on Saturday afternoon on the occasion of its National Council, pending Monday, from the word of the boss Emmanuel Macron.
The presidential party met for the first time this kind of internal parliament, Saturday at the Judo Institute in Paris.
In this room used to martial arts, the calm of the debates and of the 300 people present, including a good part of the government, contrasts with the tension which gripped France with the pension reform, promulgated on Friday after its validation by the Constitutional Council. .
The objective of the day: to expose the internal democracy within the movement and its efforts to take root in the territories.
"Yes, we must collectively show this humility which we have sometimes lacked: we needed to establish our organization more, to review its functioning, to adapt it better also to the political context which is that of the second five-year term" , plants the general secretary of the party Stéphane Séjourné.
The chairmanship of the session falls to MP Fadila Khattabi. "Don't worry, there is no motion of rejection, no motion of censure here", laughs the elected official of Côte-d'Or. "It's better than the Social Affairs Committee" that she chairs in the Assembly: "here, there are no madmen".
Bruno Le Maire opens the ball for ministers and talks about green industry. The boss of Bercy celebrates his 54th birthday on Saturday. "I started public life, Gérald Darmanin was in short pants, Stéphane Séjourné was passing his college certificate with Aurore Bergé, and Gabriel Attal was not yet born", locates the Minister of the Economy.
Gérald Darmanin succeeds him. The Minister of the Interior praises the results of Emmanuel Macron's six years in power, particularly on the employment front. "Unemployment was the main difficulty of your generation," he slips for the eldest from Bercy.
"Everyone has their perception, their sensitivity, their chosen land", continues the northerner who intends to carry a popular discourse within a party which, according to him, would lack it significantly.
In the "distribution of wealth", between "those who work and who do not work", for access to health, to Education... "As long as we still have these inequalities, we can understand that part of the French are angry," he warned.
Gabriel Attal evokes as usual "this middle class who works, who gets up in the morning", and speaks of "repainting the tax centers" to "tax evaders".
The ephemeral Minister of Health Brigitte Bourguignon presents the party's position on the end of life: two new "separate rights", that of the patient at the end of life or suffering from an incurable disease to "request active assistance in dying" . That of the doctor "to accept the patient's request or to evade it, by a conscience clause".
Particularly applauded, after having endured the debates on pensions in the hemicycles, the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt evokes "a battle which could not be won alone". But as she did the day before, Elisabeth Borne will repeat that there is "neither winner nor loser".
The Prime Minister made no announcements, two days before the presidential address. "We are determined to accelerate" the reforms, she promised, while repeating the desire to "appease" the country.
Submitted to the vote of the participants, the "general contribution" of Stéphane Séjourné received an approval score of 99.4%. The "thematic contributions" - green industry, work value, housing, end of life... - which could be amended during debates with the room, were all adopted with a score of over 90%. Including that on "emancipation", Macron's totem, reaffirming the presidential promise of "solidarity at the source" (automatic payment of certain social benefits).
It will be "the queen of the reforms of this five-year term", assured government spokesman Olivier Véran.
04/15/2023 21:53:09 - Paris (AFP) - © 2023 AFP
