Alone on stage?
Every Tuesday and Wednesday,
“questions to the government”
(QAG) are a democratic meeting that the political microcosm almost never misses.
For an hour on average, members of the executive must respond to a series of questions, on current issues, from the opposition but also from the majority.
While this moment, enshrined in parliamentary habits and customs, has been spread over two days since the end of November, to revitalize exchanges, its format could further evolve in the coming weeks.
How ?
This Thursday, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said he was
“totally open”
to a new configuration in which deputies would only address him.
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“My nature is more to respond when I am challenged. I am not the type to hide behind my ministers,”
justified the head of government, who, with this gift of the formula that we know him, has gotten into the habit of going to the front.
Before making this face-to-face meeting conditional on the agreement of the President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet.
According to information from BFMTV, Gabriel Attal and the elected official from Yvelines spoke this Thursday at noon on this subject.
The Wednesday session could therefore be reserved entirely for the host of Matignon.
After the groups' agreement, the new formula could begin on February 28.
A proposal already made in Borne
If the holder of the perch had already submitted to her predecessor Élisabeth Borne the idea that one of the two weekly sessions of questions to the government be devoted to her answers, this option had obviously not been retained by the one who has since become a deputy for Calvados .
Traditional in the House of Commons, the equivalent of the Palais Bourbon in the United Kingdom, where the English Prime Minister is vigorously addressed by parliamentarians, such a format would be completely new in France.
Until now, it was customary for the prime minister, leader of the majority, to respond only to the presidents of the parliamentary groups.
Thus leaving the members of his team to respond to the other deputies.