At the evening of his victory, Emmanuel Macron said: “I also know that many of our compatriots voted this day for me, not to support the ideas I wear, but to block those of the extreme right . I want to thank them here. I am aware that this vote forces me for the years to come. “Six months later, the government has just resorted four times in article 49.3 of the Constitution, with which He can engage his responsibility on a text which is then adopted without a vote.
Beyond their institutional dimensions, these unpublished uses of 49.3 at the very beginning of the five-year term, which we can think of multiplying, take a singular scope in the political context, and are the sign of a serious decline in democratic culture in our country. The government cannot hide it by deporting the debate on the vote by the RN of the Motion of Censorship of the Nut.
These are not harmless texts on which the government has chosen to prohibit the Parliament from deciding. They relate to state and social security revenue, and decide on the amount of taxes and social contributions. However, in many countries, parliament has precisely been created to there is a democratic consent to tax. Observers noted that this practice was not new, that most governments used it under the Vᵉ Republic, and that even a great democrat like Michel Rocard had used 49.3 a record number of twenty-eight times.
The context of a historic democratic crisis
The same observers recalled that the constitutional revision adopted in 2008 under the mandate of Nicolas Sarkozy made it possible to limit his employment to a bill by session, outside the budgetary texts. What these observers forget to say is that it limits the use of 49.3, except for the adoption of the most important texts in the legislature and which have often justified the very existence of our modern parliaments, during their creation. This is a very singular conception of the role of Parliament.
Besides the fact that the use of 49.3 was most often ended with the executives who chose such a passage in force – that we are thinking of the first hiring contract (CPE) by Dominique de Villepin, in 2006 , or to the “Labor” law of Manuel Valls ten years later – the use of this article, in the context of a historic democratic crisis, takes a completely different meaning today.
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