During his first meeting Friday evening with the 150 French people participating in the Citizen's Climate Convention (CCC), French President Emmanuel Macron declared himself in favor of a referendum on some of the proposals that this convention will make.
"I think we need to call a referendum on a few measures, because that is what will allow us to share with everyone the concern on the subject," he said during a question and answer session. responses with the members of the Convention to the Cese (Economic, Social and Environmental Council) in Paris.
Two options
The Head of State recalled the possibility of two types of referendum: one relating to a text of law, with decision-making value, and the other on one or more proposals, with a simple indicative value.
"If you ask me to submit something to a referendum, I can absolutely decide. But there will be two cases. Either what has been prepared is a law. The day it is voted by the people, it applies without a filter, ”he said. Another option, "if it is just one proposal or a series of proposals, the referendum has no legislative value, it has advisory value". "It never happened, but I'm ready to go in that direction. "
Emmanuel Macron against the "citizens' initiative referendum"
"The enlightening referendum will create an electric arc, a pressure on these subjects," he launched, but "it will then be necessary to build a law which will be submitted to Parliament". He thus responded to citizens whom they asked him if he really undertook to relay their "unfiltered" proposals to the French, either by regulations, or by laws submitted to Parliament, or by referendum.
He added that, on the other hand, he was not in favor of the "citizens' initiative referendum" requested by the yellow vests. “On the RIC, I was very reserved, because it will always take people to take on difficult decisions; It is not because we will hold referendums every month that we will respond to the problems.
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