The President (LR) of the Senate Gérard Larcher (LR) expressed his reluctance on Saturday to initiate a reform of the institutions, as Emmanuel Macron wishes, wondering about the advisability of the « moment » when the subjects “of inflation and crisis of public services” seem to be priorities.
“We are always ready to examine what improves the functioning of democracy: simplification, decentralization, and we are working on it… But is this the time”asked Mr. Larcher in an interview with the Parisian.
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“If you ask the French about their concerns, I doubt they will answer: ‘Reform of the Court of Justice of the Republic, reform of the Superior Council of the Judiciary or proportional to the National Assembly’. Instead, I hear about inflation and a crisis in public services”he argued.
For his part, Emmanuel Macron hammers his will to move forward on this subject, after having stumbled over it during his first five-year term. In his televised address on Monday, the Head of State said he wanted to present soon “main avenues for the functioning of our institutions to gain in efficiency and citizen participation”.
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The president also recently received at the Elysée Gérard Larcher as well as the president of the Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet (Renaissance) to discuss these questions. While Ms. Braun-Pivet said she was in favor of a reform, she also questioned the timing, as the pension crisis does not open, according to her “not a favorable climate”.
For Mr. Larcher, “the return of trust is not the institutional construction game as a priority”.
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The President of the Senate also pointed out the “crisis of governance and confidence” crossed according to him by the country, “linked to the absence of results, to an overly vertical governance, to a sprawling bureaucracy, to this France next door which feels forgotten and takes refuge in abstention, but also to the absence of an absolute majority in the ‘National Assembly “.
“We must regain closeness with the French”further pleaded the elected representative of Yvelines, whose name sometimes comes up to replace Elisabeth Borne at Matignon, if however Emmanuel Macron finds an agreement with Les Républicains.
More “the political conditions today are not met”underlined Mr. Larcher, without however formally excluding the hypothesis.
“We have major disagreements with the policy pursued by the executive, on public spending, on decentralization, on the sovereign…”he further argued, assuring that his « horizon » was his candidacy for the senatorial elections in September, and his renewal for the presidency of the Senate.
