The agenda wanted by the Elysée does not seem to be that of Gérard Larcher. The President LR of the Senate indeed expressed on Saturday his reluctance to initiate a reform of the institutions, as Emmanuel Macron wishes, wondering about the opportunity 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 Gérard Larcher in an interview with the Parisian. “If we ask the French about their concerns, I doubt that 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.
Yaël Braun-Pivet also questions the timing
For his part, Emmanuel Macron hammers his will to move forward on this subject. In his televised speech of April 17, the Head of State said he wanted to present “main avenues for the functioning of our institutions to gain in efficiency and citizen participation”.
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. If Yaël Braun-Pivet said she was in favor of a reform, she also questioned the timing, the pension crisis not opening according to her “not a favorable climate”.
The President of the Senate also pointed to the “crisis of governance and confidence” that the country is going through, according to him, “linked to the absence of results, to an overly vertical governance, to a sprawling bureaucracy, to this France of side which feels forgotten and takes refuge in abstention, but also in the absence of an absolute majority in the National Assembly”.
Larcher kicks into touch on Matignon
“We must regain proximity with the French”, further pleaded the elected official of Yvelines, whose name sometimes comes up to replace Elisabeth Borne at Matignon, if however Emmanuel Macron finds an agreement with Les Républicains. But “the political conditions today are not met”, underlined Gérard 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, ensuring that his “horizon” was his candidacy for the senatorial elections. of September, and his renewal as President of the Senate.
He also urged the right to find “coherence, cohesion and a political line”, after being torn on the pension reform. “We need a strategy, a line, before thinking about the presidential election,” he insisted.