"Only the people should have the possibility to revise the Constitution", says Le Pen

Europe 1 with AFP 4:02 p.m., April 12, 2022

The RN presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, wishing to propose a "referendum revolution" if elected, ruled on Tuesday that "only the people should have the possibility of revising the Constitution" and not the Parliament.

"It's much healthier for it to be the people who vote for it than the two chambers", she added while Marine Le Pen wants a revision of the Constitution to include in particular the principle of "national priority". and the primacy of national law over international law.

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Do not consider "the French people as an enemy"

"The Constitutional Council has no competence to control a bill which revises the Constitution", also asserted Marine Le Pen during a press conference in Vernon in the Eure on the lands of Minister Sébastien Lecornu.

However, to submit such a bill to a referendum, Marine Le Pen would have to go through article 89, after the adoption of the bill, in identical terms, by the deputies and senators, or even by article 11 reserved " to the organization of public authorities and economic, social and environmental policy", with the likelihood of censorship by the Constitutional Council.

For Marine Le Pen, "we must stop considering the French people as an enemy".

With the desire to "revitalize" the institutions and the democratic functioning of the country, Ms. Le Pen qualified in the second round of the presidential election against Emmanuel Macron, proposes a "referendum revolution" and the "non-renewable seven-year term".

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"The constitution will be revised first to make it easier to organize referendums on all subjects, then and above all to introduce the citizens' initiative referendum as well as the popular initiative referendum", she declared.

"A referendum is not dangerous, giving the floor to the people is not dangerous, what is dangerous is not giving it to them", underlined the candidate explicitly targeting the outgoing head of state Emmanuel Macron.

"We are not going to have a referendum every Sunday," she added.

If the answer is no "it's a failure" and "we don't put in place" the measure, said the far-right candidate.

She also detailed her plan to introduce proportional voting with a majority bonus in legislative elections.

"Even those who do not like all my proposals have an interest in voting for me, since they will have the opportunity, thanks to the reform that I am proposing here, to decide on them, on a case-by-case basis, thanks to the RIP. Can we propose a more democratic measure?”, she also asked in a wink to left-wing voters likely to vote for her in the second round.