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Dissolution threat leaves MPs skeptical

11/7/2022, 7:14:04 PM


DECRYPTION - In the presidential camp as among the "constructive" oppositions, this constant threat is starting to annoy.

Since June, rumors have been stubbornly rumbling: what if the president decides to dissolve the National Assembly?

Deprived of an absolute majority at the Palais Bourbon since his re-election, Emmanuel Macron - as well as some of his troops - has already raised this threat on several occasions.

A few weeks ago, in a small committee, the head of state let go as follows:

"If a motion of censure is adopted, everyone goes back to the campaign."

A way of telling all the political forces, and particularly the Republicans, that he would not hesitate to call early legislative elections if the government were overthrown.

On Sunday, the warning reappeared in an article in the

JDD

.

According to the weekly, the President of the Republic would carefully prepare a

"dissolution operation"

, installing in people's minds

"the inevitability of a new legislative election"

.

An outcome so inexorable that the presidential party would already have a

“detailed retroplanning”

with the different stages of the operation…

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