Constitutional Revision vote against is “outvote the president” – Le Point

Prime Minister Manuel Valls warned Tuesday that the socialist deputies vote against the constitutional reform was tantamount to “embarrass the government and outvote the president” Francois Hollande. “I appeal to the rally because it is vis-a-vis the French and the country,” said the Prime Minister at the meeting of the PS group, holding that the “essential” is to vote constitutional reform, according to comments reported by a participant.

“Large majority”

“We can not cut into pieces the oath of the president (made in Versailles three days of Congress after the attacks in Paris and announcing the revision of the Constitution, Ed). Vote against, is to embarrass the government and outvote the president, “added the Prime Minister on the eve of the solemn vote of members throughout the draft revision of the Constitution.

He welcomed the adoption by MEPs on Monday evening of the article providing the entrenchment of the state of emergency, saying that “important” element, and felt that if emerges “a large majority” in the evening on the second part of the project, the controversial deprivation of nationality, “then it will be up to the right and to the Senate as to assume its responsibilities,” a statement prompting applause. “There’s a debate right. But if we let the opposition the opportunity to say they are divided (the majority, Ed), then we have lost on all fronts, “he continued, in the same source.

“tense atmosphere”

Going in the same direction, the leader of the PS deputies, Bruno Le Roux, told MPs that had to “show unity of the majority and then to the Senate its responsibilities,” according to another participant. At the exit of the group meeting, Prime Minister said he was “convinced that there will be a majority” for the vote on Article 2. “If we can bring together widely tonight and especially tomorrow in during the solemn vote in the Assembly, I think we have demonstrated this responsibility and this height of view must prevail, “he said.

A member who participated in the meeting testified to its share of “atmosphere very tense”, evoking a group “very shared and where there are dilemmas for everyone” between loyalty and fidelity to his convictions. “Until the last minute, many will wonder in their conscience,” he added. The “rebellious” Christian Paul, meanwhile, reaffirmed its strong opposition to the deprivation of nationality, which “has become an obstacle to national unity,” expressing his doubts about the possibility of convening a new Congress in Versailles on this text.

“blackmail”

former Minister Cécile Duflot (EELV) for his part hoped that his parliamentary colleagues “resist blackmail” as it operated by Manuel Valls on the forfeiture by balancing a “outvoted” by Hollande and a greater terrorist threat than ever. “I hope there will be many parliamentary colleagues who resist the blackmail because it’s blackmail, in fact, which is implemented on parliamentary” felt she was on France 3 just before the session of questions to Government House.

“Everyone knows that although we vote here, it will have no effect on the fight against terrorism,” she continued, recalling that the Minister of Justice Jean-Jacques Urvoas, when he was chairman of the Committee on Laws, had said in March 2015 that “feed (it) martyrology jihadists.” Deprivation of nationality for terrorists “opens a fatal breach in the French Constitution” and “is a serious mistake,” lamented the president of the environmental group in the Assembly.