Paris (AFP)
The independent commission set up by the Prime Minister will make "proposals on relations between the press and the security forces", while the Laws Committee of the Assembly will rewrite within 15 days article 24 of the bill "Comprehensive security", said Wednesday the government.
"In the current context, our role is to calm things down and put the job back on the job, as much as necessary", summarized the head of government Jean Castex, interviewed on BFMTV / RMC.
Article 25 of the draft law on republican principles (which will pass in the Council of Ministers on December 9), the objective of which is "not very far" from Article 24, "could be a track of completion" , "surely", also explained Mr. Castex, but he leaves the "parliamentarians to do their work".
"Parliament will rewrite the text and the (independent) commission will make proposals on relations between the press and the security forces, all that must be ironed out, there are passageways," the Prime Minister said.
"I say this to your colleagues, they can count on me, they can count on the parliamentary majority, they can of course first of all count on the President of the Republic to preserve and consolidate the freedom of the press," he said. -He insists.
Headed by the president of the National Consultative Commission on Human Rights (CNCDH), Jean-Marc Burguburu, this commission was initially to be charged with "proposing a new wording of article 24".
But this idea, launched last Thursday, caused a political and institutional crisis between the executive and parliament, even tearing apart the majority.
"The senators, and I respect the Senate a lot, will rewrite this text, will examine it in general, except that it will not arrive in the Senate until mid or end of January. I cannot, myself, let live (...) this ambiguity on the objectives ", explained Mr. Castex to justify that the National Assembly, which has already voted the law, is now looking into a new version.
Government spokesman Gabriel Attal indicated at the end of the Council of Ministers that the "new writing (of the article) will be presented by the law committee" within "a period of 15 days" as "given by the Prime Minister ".
The presidential majority of the National Assembly decided on Monday a "total rewriting" of article 24 in order to "remove doubts".
With regard to the independent commission, the Prime Minister "instructed the Minister of the Interior to make proposals to him" again within "15 days", with the objective "of reinforcing this confidence (between the media and the police, editor's note) and to answer a number of questions that have emerged following cases of "police violence revealed in recent days.
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