Emmanuel Macron will convene the parties on Wednesday at the School of the Legion of Honor in Saint-Denis.

Now the place is known. Emmanuel Macron will host the parties represented in Parliament on Wednesday at the Legion of Honor Education Building in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis). The meeting is part of her “major political initiative,” Le Parisien announced last week.

The choice of this school, created in 1809 and located near the Saint-Denis Basilica, has a “symbolic meaning”, i.e. “meritocracy”, argued Olivier Véran on BFMTV and RMC. “This is a school for girls whose parents have been awarded by the people for special merit,” he explains. The department indicates that they welcome exclusively in boarding schools “daughters, granddaughters and great-granddaughters of the French and foreigners, awarded the Order of the Legion of Honor, the Military Medal and the National Order of Merit.” “And this is in Saint-Denis, the city where the riots took place,” – in late June – early July, the representative again explained.

Track “preferendum”

According to Olivier Veran, this “afternoon of work, which the President of the Republic wants to be productive” should be organized along “several lines”. “First an international axis (…), but also about how to form a nation, about the return of power, about immigration issues,” he elaborated. While each of the party’s leaders is invited to come up with proposals, “nothing is sorted, nothing is predetermined,” he says.

To prepare for this meeting, the newspaper Le Figaro announced on Monday that the President of the Republic would meet with several ministers on Tuesday. In addition to Elizabeth Born, the prime minister, eleven members of the government have been invited to the Elysee Palace, the residence of the president. Bruno Le Maire (economics), Gérald Darmanin (interior), Sebastien Lecornu (army), Christophe Bechu (environmental transition) are among the participants in the round table, which is due to start at 10 am.

In a letter addressed to the parties, the Head of State stressed that the goal is to develop legislative texts “together” and open the way, “if necessary”, to referendums. But the president is also “open” to testing the “preferendum,” Olivier Veran said. “This is a concept that will allow us to test several topics at the same time during the same vote. You can ask a few questions to the French. I’m not saying it’s what’s on the table, but not a single door is closed. »

A referendum is actually a method of voting that allows a voter to evaluate multiple preferences on a major issue. The option with the most points is declared the winner.