“We don’t change the rules during the match”: Ferrand denies wanting a 3rd term for Macron

This is called a pataques. Former President of the National embly Richard Ferrand did not expect to cause controversy during his Sunday interview with Le Figaro. However, he failed to avoid it.

Asked in the daily about the constitutional impossibility for Emmanuel Macron to run for a third term in 2027, Richard Ferrand said he regretted “everything that restricts the free expression of popular sovereignty”, citing “the limitation of the presidential mandate in time” and “the non-cumulation of mandates”. “All this corsets our public life in rules that limit the free choice of citizens. It weakens our political life in quality and density, and makes it less attractive, ”he said on Sunday, creating an outcry in particular from the opposition.

Richard Ferrand, who was the guest of Sud Radio on Monday, wished, at the microphone of Jean-Jacques Bourdin, to deny the idea that he could have wanted a third term for the president. An interview that he shared on Twitter with the comment “ultimate explanation” and during which he denounced an “obscure plot”, as well as a “false controversy, born of the combination of social networks which are carried away and the repetition of a misinterpretation by the few who have access to the media”.

“My point was not to say that we had to change the rules in view of 2027”

He ured that he did not want to “change a comma in these words”. “What I was saying in a prospective way, I have said it several times, we must trust the voters, and we must let them choose who they want when they want for the presidency of the republic, their city, their commune. , their department or region. After all there are cities that are run by mayors who are in their fourth term,” explained the former perch holder.

“My point was not to say that we had to change the rules in view of 2027, but in general we had to allow our democracy to breathe better and to leave the last word to the voters in all circumstances” , he insisted. “This has always been my point of view”, concluded the one who moved away from political life after his defeat in the 2022 legislative elections.

The opposition had reacted strongly to the publication of his interview, like Mathilde Panot, MP LFI. “And why not restore the Empire with Macron 1st? Richard Ferrand, the face of the autocratic drift of Macronie ”, had thus attacked the Insoumis on Twitter, sharing a cover of the response of the former deputy.

“I’m more of a veteran than a wannabe”

Former President of the National embly Richard Ferrand, in his interview with Le Figaro, insisted above all on the need for the Macronist majority and “all the political forces which define themselves as Republicans” to make “reciprocal concessions”, at the risk of “democratic suicide”.

This very close to Emmanuel Macron believed that “a moment of national unity must be sought on a few objectives, each keeping his identity and putting aside his future ambitions for a few years”. “All the political forces that define themselves as republicans are partners of the President of the Republic. We need collective recovery and peaceful debates, ”insisted Richard Ferrand, himself from the Socialist Party.

“Those who bet on their sole ability to harm the action of the president and the government are scuttling themselves. This applies to Republicans as well as to reformists from all walks of life,” he also warned, scratching “those who imagine preparing for the future without acting, in the present, in the service of the country.”

The name of this early walker came back in the press recently amid reshuffle rumors, replacing Elisabeth Borne at Matignon. “I’m more of a veteran than a wannabe,” he observed in a pirouette. Adding: “when it comes to rumors, anything that flatters the ego should be considered with caution and recognition”.

Asked on Sunday on France 3, the boss of the LR deputies Olivier Marleix was ironic about Richard Ferrand’s appeal, believing that “the president has been trampling on national unity for six years”. “The President of the Republic, to be sure of being re-elected, pushed the French to extremes (…) And now he says: in the face of this chaos that I have created, come to my aid “squeaked Olivier Marleix. Politics “is not a business of grub”. “We want to remain an alternative,” insisted the deputy for Eure-et-Loir.