Professor of political science, Benjamin Morel is a lecturer in public law at the University of Paris-II Panthéon-Assas.
LE FIGARO.
- The majority proposed, Monday, a “total rewrite” of the very controversial article 24 of the text “global security”.
How to understand this initiative?
Benjamin MOREL.
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As it was formulated, it comes under a big legal rubbish.
The majority can shout at will, it is probably already too late: it has already approved the text (last November 24) and it is the senators who now have their hands on it.
This is the simple principle of the “parliamentary shuttle”, provided for in article 45 of the Constitution: once a text is adopted by one Chamber, it is transmitted to the other.
However, as the government has chosen to initiate the accelerated procedure on this text, there will be no second reading by the National Assembly, unless no agreement between deputies and senators is found.
By proposing a “rewrite”, the Macronist majority
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