Emmanuel Macron took on Gaullian accents on Wednesday October 4, as if to better signify that no revolution would upset the Ve Republic, “thought and willed”, he recalls, by the general. The Head of State, who spoke in the main hall of the Constitutional Council on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the 1958 Constitution, did not give up leaving his mark on the founding text of the Ve Republic. But, after two aborted attempts, in 2018 and 2019, the tenant of the Elysée, today with a relative majority in the Assembly, renounces the “big evening”. And it is with laudatory words that he begins his remarks to Gérard Larcher, President of the Assembly, and Yaël Braun Pivet, his counterpart in the National Assembly, describing the Constitution as “a precious asset to be preserved “, resembling ” obvious ».
Change a Republic which allowed France “to answer for one’s destiny” would be “useless and presumptuous”he thinks, attacking the VIe Republic promised by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the founder of La France insoumise. “We would sometimes like to see in the change of a constitutional text the response to the situations we are experiencing. She can’t do everything. And public morality, the sense of responsibility, the exemplary nature of the elites, like the sense of duty of each citizen, are foundations which do not depend on a text.he snaps.
His past thoughts on a possible return to the seven-year term or the establishment of mid-term presidential elections have evaporated. “The fact of not having democratic breathing for five years is no longer adapted to our times”he explained in an interview at Point April 12, 2022. From the Constitutional Council, Emmanuel Macron now praises the strong powers of the presidential office and the stability of the regime, “marriage of sovereignty and our values, of democratic force and the intangible which found us”. “Our Constitution, yesterday as today, perhaps even today more than yesterday, is fully democratic”he supports, rejecting the idea that the democratic malaise evoked by the oppositions resides in the form or practice of our institutions.
Expand the possibilities of resorting to a referendum
The 1958 text, which has not been revised for fifteen years, must nevertheless “welcome tomorrow enough to allow us to rediscover the meaning of our destiny”, he concedes. Accused since 2017 of exercising power too vertically, Emmanuel Macron admits that it is necessary “allow citizens to be undoubtedly more solicited and better involved”. And pushes the idea of expanding the possibilities of resorting to a referendum. Today, article 11 of the Constitution limits the subjects of direct consultation of the French to international treaties, institutional, economic, social or environmental reforms.
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