Judging “the five-year term probably too short for the presidential time”, the president candidate for his re-election suggests the idea of a seven-year term separated by mid-term elections, as in the United States.
Soon the return of seven-year terms rather than five? In an interview with the magazine Point published on Tuesday, Emmanuel Macron spoke out in favor of a presidential term of seven years, instead of the five years currently in force.
“The fact of not having a democratic breath for five years is no longer suited to our time”, considers the Head of State in this interview given in the middle of the two rounds, before proposing the idea of establishing midterm elections in France, which take place every two years in the United States.
“The five-year term is probably too short”
“We should perhaps have something resembling midterm elections, like in the United States,” says Emmanuel Macron. “These are my free thoughts, I said that I wanted to set up a cross-party commission on this subject. I also think that the five-year term is probably too short for a presidential term in France”.
The Head of State suggests “a seven-year term with midterms”, because that “would, for example, better separate the governmental executive from the presidential executive. That said, I do not at all believe that the Fifth Republic is a bad regime, on the contrary. The current crisis is above all a crisis of efficiency. In today’s world, we must be able to decide quickly, loudly and clearly.”