1, 2, 3, controversy – The President of the Republic, who attended the opening ceremony of the Council of State, uttered a sentence which risks provoking a new outcry on the left…
A sentence that risks annoying more than one person… Emmanuel Macron declared on Wednesday before the Council of State that it was necessary to “always take into account” the “suffrage” of the French.
“The people, who are sovereign today, express themselves through suffrage, which must always be taken into account because it is the primary fact in any democracy,” he stressed during the opening ceremony of the Council of State, at the risk of provoking a new outcry from the left following the legislative elections.
A “stolen election” after the appointment of a right-wing Prime Minister
The New Popular Front (NFP) denounced a “stolen election” after the head of state appointed a right-wing prime minister, Michel Barnier, while the left came out on top in the second round of voting on July 7.
The Head of State recalled how “our Western democracies have been deeply affected, sometimes destabilized by transitions and shocks” – climatic, energy, geopolitical – and citizens struck by the “feeling of losing control of their lives”. Faced with this observation, he pleaded for a “reinforced culture of the effectiveness of public action” and (…) - 20minutes
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