They also said no. A few days before its official launch, scheduled for Thursday, September 8, the National Refoundation Council continues to spin. According to information from BFMTV, the PCF and the EELV will not participate in the “CNR”, announced by the executive during the legislative campaign to “share diagnoses at the national level on major issues” involving many actors.

Following the Insoumi’s refusal, two other Nupes parties are already closing the door even before the launch of this “construction site for schools, health, our main public services”, to use the words of Emmanuel Macron.

Like LR and RN before them, they deplore a vague initiative. “We asked for the program of the day from the CNR and there was no response,” laments Julien Bayou, national secretary of the EELV.

“An operation that aims to bypass Parliament”

If the CNR aims to involve “leaders of political parties, leaders of parliamentary groups, representatives of associations of elected representatives of the territories, representatives of intermediate organizations, unions in association with the Economic, Social and Environment”, the parties of opposition fear an undemocratic exercise.

“We do not want to support an operation that aims to bypass Parliament,” agrees Ian Brossat, spokesman for the PCF.

“Unfortunately, we have no reason to think that it will be anything other than another great mass with the president in ‘one-man-show’ mode, in shirt sleeves and blah blah,” adds Julien Bayou.

wave of rejection

On the Nupes side, the PS’s response is expected within a week. But on this issue, the opposition to the presidential majority is united. “I believe that this body cannot achieve the renewal of democracy to which you aspire,” wrote Gérard Larcher, president of the Senate, in a letter addressed to the president of the Republic.

He is not the only one, on the right, who sees this initiative by Emmanuel Macron with bad eyes. A few weeks ago, the head of the Republicans in the Senate, Bruno Retailleau, had described the CNR as one of those “Macronian devices to circumvent and weaken Parliament.”

“We will not participate in the National Refoundation Council, the latest fashion of Emmanuel Macron”, Marine Le Pen, president of the RN group in the National Assembly, had launched.