The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, today invited the leaders of the parties with parliamentary representation to an unprecedented meeting to be held next Wednesday to “converge” and get out of a certain political blockade of the Government, which lacks a sufficient majority in the Assembly National, Lower House of Congress.
It will be a meeting behind closed doors to which Macron attends with “a loyal hand outstretched”, as reflected in the letter sent to the different formations on Friday night and reproduced today by local media.
“The objective will be to specify courses of action that can be translated concretely and quickly into government initiatives and legislative texts promoted jointly,” he said in the letter quoted by the private news channel BFM TV.
The letter does not specify the place of the possible meeting, which is unprecedented in the recent history of France and which will take place after a tense semester marked by the crisis caused by the pension reform promoted by the ruling party and rejected by the opposition and unions in the streets.
In addition, it will occur after the wave of violence that began at the end of June due to the death of the teenager Nahel in the suburbs of Paris, in a “trigger easy” case that revived the debate on police violence.
The Immigration Law and the 2024 budgets are the two great legislative challenges of the last quarter of 2023 for the ruling party, which has few allies in Congress.
Within this framework, according to Macron, each of the attendees will be able to come with their own themes, in an apparent attempt to attract the different parties, the Europa Press news agency specified.
The head of the far-right National Association, Jordan Bardella, had already responded “favourably” to the invitation before it came to fruition, although in statements to the political weekly Le Point he warned that he would go to the meeting “without having any illusions.”
For his part, the first secretary of the Socialist Party (PS), Olivier Faure, confirmed to the newspaper Liberation that he will attend the meeting and will do so with his own proposals under his arm.
Source: Ambito
