An “unprecedented process” which “could well mark the history of our country”, it is in these terms that the spokesman of the government Olivier Véran welcomed on France info, of the meeting between the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron and the party leaders. This Thursday at 12 p.m. in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis).
“Something happened yesterday that could well mark the political or even democratic history of our country”, enthused the Minister for Democratic Renewal, since “people who do not talk to each other, who do not get along “decided to talk to each other, behind closed doors, to share agreements and disagreements, until the middle of the night”. “The political class was able to enter into an unprecedented process of discussion,” insisted Olivier Véran. According to him, “it is rather an image that must please the French, because (they) too often consider that their political class is there only to clash, to tear each other apart without managing to find the ‘general interest “.
A follow-up government seminar will take place on September 6
While the opposition leaders were much less enthusiastic at the end of this long meeting and said they were waiting above all for something concrete, the minister was less talkative about what will come out of it. “We will see how the returns are going to be done in the next few hours, the next few days”, he explained, while recalling that at the end of the next Council of Ministers on Wednesday September 6 “a government seminar will be held to be able to address these issues with all the ministers, so as to make things happen”.
Olivier Véran confirmed that through “the idea of a social conference”, the “door has not been closed on the question of low wages below the Smic or working conditions”. And concerning the hypothesis of a next meeting, in “this same format”, as mentioned by an Elysian source, the government spokesperson indicated “that there may be new exchanges” in the coming weeks because “strike while the iron is hot”.