Bernard Accoyer replied on a practical level

After the tax package, the postal packet While 90 of the estimated 2.1 million people who participated in the "citizen referendum" on the position expressed opposing any privatization, opposition, Socialist head, now wants to move the battle to the National Assembly. October 15 members will indeed examine a "motion for a resolution to implement article 11 of the Constitution on the extension of the referendum".In the jargon of rugby, it would call this "make test". Policy, is, more prosaically, to exploit his advantage.

"We want to take advantage of the current debate on the position to demonstrate the urgency to have an organic law that would finally hold a referendum on people's initiative", provides MP François Brottes, specialist of the PS. Popular initiative referendum are provided for in the constitutional reform of July 2008, but will be organized after the vote of a specific organic act which has not yet been submitted to Parliament.

The President of the National Assembly, Bernard Accoyer, precisely indicated yesterday that the text for organizing these referendums should be discussed by end June 2010, most likely after the reform of the post. "Of course! exclaims MP François Brottes.". We will expose the hypocrisy of the Government. "Without waiting for the Bill to be discussed, Laurent Fabius in critical already the terms and conditions. He denounced yesterday the fact require the support of 10 of registered voters to hold a referendum on people's initiative, or 4.5 million people. "A referendum, it is very well when the Irish vote, but the status of the position, this is not possible!", is it insurgent. For its part, the spokesman of the PS, Benoît Hamon, said that if the President of the Republic did not hold a referendum, the vote would be redone with "even more mobilization." "" "You'll see that it will double the results, at least", he assured.

"Of the false democracy."

Facing the heavy fire of the Socialists, the majority responded. Bernard Accoyer replied on a practical level. "The series of implementation texts" constitutional reform "is long and heavy and this one is the last which was not adopted", he explained, adding that, from a technical point of view, "it's difficult to know who will vote, lists must be established." Former Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin (UMP) is placed on the ground of the principles. He held that this "citizen voting", was "false democracy" referring to "stuff the ballot boxes with false information." According to him, "even if there are 2 million people" who participated in this vote, "this is not the people."

Finally, Frédéric Lefebvre, spokesman for the UMP, has, for its part, tried humor field. "The testimony arrive us each day on the Stalinist conditions of the vote with people who are fun to vote 22 times, just to see", he said. "I am told that Louis de Funès and Marlon Brando have voted."The Bill on the reform of the status of the position will be reviewed on 2 November in the Senate. In the meantime, opposition and trade unions do not exclude to proceed with a second "voting" to keep up the pressure.