Meetings in Saint-Denis: Ciotti accuses Macron of “fuelling” the democratic crisis

He will not attend the new “meetings in Saint-Denis” this Friday. And he shoots. The head of the Republic of Lithuania, Eric Ciotti, accuses Emmanuel Macron of “fueling” the democratic crisis by “multiplying” initiatives outside institutions. AFP received a copy of the open letter.

“You are the President of the French Republic and must respect its institutions,” writes the deputy from the Alpes-Maritimes, whose absence from Saint-Denis was called a “political mistake” by the head of state.

After “giving the benefit of the doubt” during the first meetings organized on August 30, Eric Ciotti now refuses to be “the guarantor of a new narrative sequence that will achieve nothing,” criticizing the “obsession with chatter without a future.” .

The debate “should be public”

“By multiplying initiatives outside the institutional field, you are helping to weaken them and fuel the crisis of democracy,” warns the head of the Republicans, calling on the head of state to “use” the prerogatives granted to him by the Constitution.

The discussion “must be public, either in parliament, where the people delegate their representatives, or directly with the people themselves through a referendum,” adds the deputy from the Alpes-Maritimes, who asks the presidential majority to support the “revision proposal” that the LR is proposing. advise people on immigration issues.

In addition to Eric Ciotti, Olivier Faure (Socialist Party) and Manuel Bompard (La France Insoumise) this time spoke out for a policy of empty chairs in Saint-Denis.

The Republicans, however, will be represented by Senate President Gerard Larcher, invited in the same capacity as Assembly President Yael Braun-Pivet.