Saint-Denis meeting: Véran welcomes an "unprecedented process" which "could mark history"

“Something happened yesterday which could well mark the political and even democratic history of our country,” the minister responsible for Democratic Renewal enthused on franceinfo, since “people who do not speak to each other, who do not do not hear" have "decided to talk to each other, behind closed doors, to share agreements and disagreements, until the middle of the night".

“The political class was able to enter into an unprecedented process of discussion,” he insisted.

According to him, "it is rather an image which must please the French, because (they) too often consider that their political class is only there to collide, to tear each other apart without being able to find the 'general interest".

While the opposition leaders were much less enthusiastic at the end of this long meeting and said they were waiting for something concrete above all, the minister was less talkative about what would emerge from it.

“We will see how the returns will be made in the coming hours, the coming days,” he explained, while recalling that at the end of the next council of ministers on Wednesday September 6 “a government seminar will be held to be able to address these questions with all the ministers, so as to make things happen.”

He confirmed that through “the idea of ​​a social conference”, the “door has not been closed on the question of low wages below the minimum wage or working conditions”.

And regarding the hypothesis of a future meeting, under "this same format", as mentioned by an Elysian source, he indicated "that there will perhaps be new exchanges" in the coming weeks because "we must beat the iron while it is hot.