The risk that Emmanuel Macron cannot rely on an absolute majority in the National Assembly arouses fears within macronists who fear “wasting time”.
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“Anarchy”, “a madness”, “disorder” … Since the evening of the first round of the legislative elections, which has devoted the duel between together! And the new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union (Nuts), the presidential majority does not spare its efforts to mobilize voters and encourage them to undo the candidates of the Union of the left and their figurehead, Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Still convinced that he can “be elected” Prime Minister, the leader of rebellious France (LFI) also strives to dramatize the in-between-tours. “Chaos is him!” He replied once again, targeting Emmanuel Macron, in an interview with the Parisian, Tuesday June 14.
The hypothesis – still improbable a few weeks ago – that the re -elected head of state can only rely on a majority relating to the assembly encourages these thunderous expressions. For the first time since 2002 and the reform of the electoral calendar, the outcome of the legislative elections could seize the mechanisms put in place over the course of the V e Republic to ensure an absolute majority to the President of the Republic.
From there to say that France would be ungovernable without 289 deputies supporting Mr. Macron? “The relative majority obliges us to endless negotiations, it is a lot of waste of time,” argued the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, on France 2, Tuesday 14. For the support of the Head of the , the hypothesis is therefore equivalent to a “political and institutional crisis”. There have been two cases of a relative majority in the past: under General de Gaulle (1958-1962), then under François Mitterrand with Michel Rocard Prime Minister (1988-1991). This did not paralyze, at the time, the action of the executive, according to Marie-Anne Cohendet, professor of constitutional law at Paris-i University.
On the contrary, it even made it possible, in the case of Michel Rocard, to rehabilitate the culture of compromise through extended majorities despite the 28 occasions of article 49.3. “The raison d’être of a parliament is to parliament and one of the major vices of the v e republic is that we do not speak enough because we have too often a Majority at the Guard to you before the Head of State, “explains M Me cohendet. In the 1958 Constitution, the president even without majority has the right of dissolution as well as the use of article 49.3, limited since the 2008 revision to a finance bill and to another text by parliamentary session.
room for maneuver
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