The President of the National Assembly believes that the challenge to the pension reform does not open “a favorable climate”. Yaël Braun-Pivet (Renaissance) said on Monday that she was in favor of a reform of the institutions, via a “strengthening of the powers of Parliament” and “more citizen participation” but not now.
“We must invent the institutions that correspond to the 21st century, to the society in which we live and we must therefore make them evolve,” said this member of the presidential majority on France Inter. “It seems to me that we need to move towards more citizen participation and I have been pleading for a long time to move towards a rebalancing of powers between Parliament and the executive”, she recalled, also regretting that we are waiting “too much of one and the same person”, the President of the Republic, whether it is Emmanuel Macron or another.
A president who “listens” according to her
But, Yaël Braun-Pivet immediately nuanced, “when we are in a crisis situation, our institutions protect us”. She cited “the health crisis” and “the international political crisis at the gates of Europe”. “We must be very careful with our institutions and not necessarily modify them in a brutal or massive way”, she insisted, anxious “not to touch the great balances because they are very protective”.
However, she criticized, the country is “subject to strong tensions” of the oppositions. “When we question Parliament, when we question the Head of State, when we question the legitimacy of the Constitutional Council, it is very serious and this does not seem to me to be a climate conducive to a profound revision. of our institutions”, argued Yaël Braun-Pivet. She defended, beyond that, a President Macron who “listens”. “When we spend 2 hours with the President of the Senate to consult on the parliamentary calendar: he listens to us, he dialogues and he hears us”, she assured about the meeting which was held at the Élysée Thursday with Gérard Larcher.