Paris (AFP)

The MP France Insoumise (LFI) Alexis Corbière on Wednesday arrested Emmanuel Macron asking him to implement the referendum of shared initiative (RIP) on the privatization of Aéroports de Paris from the million of support reached.

"Mr. Macron, if you listen to me, have some panache: if you are at one million, you can operate the referendum?", Launched the member for Seine-Saint-Denis at the microphone of France Inter, prompting the head of the State to anticipate the institutional reform presented last week in the Council of Ministers.

According to the legislation in force, to be validated, the proposed referendum law must be approved by one-tenth of registered voters, or 4,717,396 people by mid-March. The constitutional council has registered on August 29 713,000 support, or 15% of signatures required by mid-March 2020.

But "Emmanuel Macron had said he wanted to drop to a million signatures to run the referendum initiative, there is almost," said Corbiere.

The constitutional law presented last Wednesday provides for the threshold of the shared initiative referendum to be lowered: it can be "organized at the joint initiative of one tenth of the members of Parliament and one million voters", against 20% parliamentarians and more than 4.7 million people currently.

"There, it can be the occasion: why to 4.7 million, since Mr. Macron says he wants to change to a million," insisted the deputy LFI, who, like the initiators of the procedure, also complains about its low profile and a government that does not "advertise" it.

"If we compare to the great debate wanted by Emmanuel Macron, it is shocking how the media did not talk about this referendum," he denounced.

"There are many public means that have been set for the great national debate, I think it's 16 million euros, there is no way that is given to publicize this referendum," he said. he accuses.

Some 250 deputies and senators (from LFI to LR, with the support of the RN) had initiated at the beginning of April the procedure of the RIP, introduced in the Constitution in 2008 but never used until now.

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