To prepare the “National Council for Refoundation”, Macron calls a dinner on Tuesday evening at the Élysée – Le Figaro

Five days before the legislative elections, the President of the Republic is surrounded by Elisabeth Borne and several ministers. Set up a new structure. This is more or less what Emmanuel Macron is trying to do on Tuesday evening by summoning his head of government and a few ministers around a dinner at the Élysée, according to information from Le Point confirmed by concordant sources at Le Figaro. Among the latter, Olivier Véran, new Minister in charge of Relations with Parliament and Democratic Life and Olivia Grégoire, government spokesperson. With the line of sight, the rapid installation of an organization: the “National Council for Refoundation”, announced at the end of last week by Emmanuel Macron in an interview with the regional daily press. Read alsoMacron and the legislative elections: “A strange climate” SEE ALSO – National Council for Refoundation: “Emmanuel Macron is on the verge of inventing the National Assembly”, tackles Bellamy In this interview, the Head of State wanted to “bring together” the new body quickly to meet the “five objectives (of) the campaign”: “Independence, full employment, carbon neutrality, public services for equal opportunities and democratic rebirth with institutional reform. For Emmanuel Macron, this “CNR” should be constituted “with the political, economic, social, associative forces, elected representatives of the territories and citizens drawn by lot”. A comparison assumed with the “National Council of Resistance” The occasion also to announce that it will launch itself this “Council” after the legislative ones. With two great ambitions. First, “it will be the body in which (the government) will bring (the) reforms to life” including those of purchasing power and pensions. It must finally be the space where the tenant of the Élysée must put into practice his “new method”. And the comparison with the “National Council of Resistance”, launched by Jean Moulin in 1943, is perfectly assumed by the Head of State. “We are living in a comparable time. We are in a historic era which requires a profound change of model, and then, the war is there”, analyzed Emmanuel Macron. SEE ALSO – Legislative: Emmanuel Macron will need “a strong majority”, warns Marie-Cécile Renault