President Hollande gives up the constitutional reform of Versailles

USPA NEWS - After the terrible attacks of 13 November, I addressed the Congress in Versailles and I presented to Parliament the decisions that I felt needed to be taken against terrorism.“ President Hollande said today announcing he waived the constitutional reform he proposed himself to the parliamentarians.

PRESIDENT HOLLANDE WAIVED THE CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM AFTER 4 MONTHS OF DEBATE After the terrible attacks of 13 November, I addressed the Congress in Versailles and I presented to Parliament the decisions that I felt needed to be taken against terrorism.“ President Hollande said today announcing he waived the constitutional reform he proposed himself to the parliamentarians. “Brussels attacks, after Paris and Saint-Denis on 13 November, have confirmed that the threat is greater than ever. Islamist terrorism has declared war on us. In France, to Europe, to the world, most recently in Pakistan, Easter Sunday to attack Christians. This war will be long. We carry in Syria, Iraq, with our armies, intensifying strikes against Daesh (ISIS) and this terrorist organization, for several weeks back. This war demand, across Europe, determined action. Progress has been made in the coordination of intelligence, also in the fight against arms trafficking. It will also continue intensively. This war requires a national response to the height of the dangers we face. After the terrible attacks of 13 November, I addressed the Congress in Versailles and I presented to Parliament the decisions that I felt needed to be taken against terrorism.---------------------------------------------------------------- Since the state of emergency was introduced and was extended twice until May. It shows its effectiveness even if it can not be a permanent condition. This is why a bill is being discussed right now in Parliament to strengthen the legal instruments, tools, available to the judiciary and security forces to prevent and suppress terrorist acts." President Hollande stated.

I also announced an increase in resources allocated to the police, the gendarmerie, the army, but also to the prison administration and customs. In short, all the civil and military officials who contribute to the protection of the French. Despite budgetary constraints and without any decrease in our efforts to reduce deficits, we generated one billion euros for the security of the French and the first appointments were made.------------------------------------------------------------------------- On November 16, I also, three days after the attacks in Paris and Saint-Denis, proposed a revision of the Constitution to better guarantee the use of state of emergency and to deprive of French nationality terrorists bear arms against their own country. I had done by calling exceeded partisan borders; I had done to gather the French; I did it at a time when the event was considerable and where he had to have an act that can testify to what we wanted to do together to act against terrorism. I see today, four months later, the National Assembly and the Senate have failed to agree on a text and a compromise seems unattainable even on the definition of lapse nationality for terrorists.-------------------------------------------------------------------- I also note that some of the opposition is opposed to any constitutional amendment, it concerns the state of emergency or even the independence of the judiciary. I deeply deplore this attitude, because we must do everything in the circumstances that we know and that are serious to avoid divisions, and to avoid overbidding.------------------------------------------------------- So I decided, after talking with the Presidents of the National Assembly and Senate to close the constitutional debate. But I will not deviate commitments that I took after the attacks, those of January 2015, like those of November, to ensure the security of our country and to protect the French against terrorism.----------------------------------------------------------------------- It's my duty and it's my responsibility. I will assume all the way and with the necessary force.“ Declared President Hollande today at a press conference, after the weekly, Ministers council, at Elysee.