French President Emmanuel Macron called the limit on the number of presidential mandates, which prevents him from running in the 2027 elections, “deadly shit” – at a meeting with the leaders of the opposition parties on Wednesday in Saint-Denis, according to some of the participants of the meeting, News.ro reported with reference to AFP.

Macron snapped. He said: “Not being able to get re-elected is fatal shit.” To change this through a referendum would be a general relief,” Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a former presidential candidate who was not present at the meeting, said on social network X (formerly Twitter).

“Maybe he was joking about it,” says a member of the macronist majority.

Emmanuel Macron reacted to the proposal of the president of the National Assembly (RN, extreme right) Jordan Bardella to limit the seven-year mandate.

The head of state debated with the leaders of the opposition parties, both left and right, behind closed doors until late at night.

On Thursday, they asked for quick “announcements” from the head of state to “concretely implement” this initiative.

The number of presidential mandates in France was limited by Nicolas Sarkozy’s reform in 2008 to two consecutive mandates.

The question of the succession of 45-year-old Emmanuel Macron, elected in 2017, is shaking the camp of the French presidential majority.