2023-11-17 20:10:49
Published on Nov. 17, 2023 at 9:09 p.m. Updated on Nov. 17, 2023 at 9:10 p.m.
A meeting but no result. Meeting in Saint-Denis this Friday, Emmanuel Macron and the party leaders concluded that it was impossible to organize a referendum on immigration, ardently demanded by the leader of the Republicans Eric Ciotti who had decided to do so. impasse on the meeting. “A consensus emerged around the table on the fact that it seemed complicated to broaden the possibility of holding referendums on societal subjects such as immigration”, rejoiced at the exit to the press. Communist Party leader Fabien Roussel. “I am leaving with great satisfaction, immense satisfaction, that there will be no referendum on immigration,” added EELV national secretary Marine Tondelier.
She noted that the leader of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella, “was all alone during this meeting” to defend the idea of this referendum. “It’s not nice of Eric Ciotti to have left him alone when it was his idea,” she added, referring to the absence of the Republican boss on Friday.
“The president is not currently considering this possibility,” confirmed Jordan Bardella. “I was today in Saint-Denis the only spokesperson for those who want to control immigration,” he said. Eric Ciotti quickly reacted from a distance: “as I predicted, today’s Saint-Denis meetings led to nothing. The President even renounces the idea of a referendum on immigration. All that for this ! “. He called on the presidential majority to vote in favor of a bill from his party “to stop mass immigration”, on the Assembly’s agenda on December 7.
Article 11
The secretary general of Renaissance, Stéphane Séjourné, stressed that the question asked on Friday by Emmanuel Macron “was not to know whether or not we were holding a referendum on immigration”. “It was a very concrete proposal […] broadening the scope of the Article 11 referendum on which he consulted all political groups.
According to the Macronist leader, “there is no majority” either on the objective “of extending the citizens’ initiative referendum, with the lowering of the thresholds” to be able to organize it. “Yaël Braun Pivet, Renaissance, the RN and the Modem were in favor of broadening article 11 on the referendum. But it was noted that the necessary majority cannot be ensured to adopt a bill in the same terms in both assemblies,” explains the Elysée entourage.
Abortion in the Constitution
Party leaders also announced that the date of December 13 had been communicated to them for the presentation to the Council of Ministers of the bill including voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion) in the Constitution. The text will land in Parliament in the first quarter of 2024 before a possible meeting of Congress in March, where 3/5ths of deputies and senators will have to endorse the chosen formulation.
Among the other subjects discussed on Friday, the party leaders and Emmanuel Macron also discussed at length the war between Israel and Hamas, and in particular the question of hostages in Gaza. “The negotiations are tough” to achieve their release, underlined Mr. Roussel, specifying that some of the information communicated by the president was confidential.
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