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Parliament is on the bridge despite the coronavirus

2020-04-07T10:03:35.957Z


With the passing of emergency laws, the legislative mission of deputies and senators is put on hold. But they continue to contr


And yet it turns! Parliament, despite the health crisis, is working. And this, despite the presence of a few rare deputies and senators also required to respect the rules of containment. Most group presidents also go back and forth during the day between their constituency and the capital.

According to our information, the suspension of work which, as every year, takes place the "Easter" week - that is to say between 13 and 17 April - will not take place. "We want to keep our control function," insists an elected LR. The legislative mission of parliamentarians indeed ended last week, with the vote in forty-eight hours by the two assemblies of the two emergency, health and economic laws tabled by the executive.

In addition to the questions to the government which will take place on Tuesday afternoons at the Palais-Bourbon and on Wednesday afternoons at the Palais du Luxembourg, the activity of parliamentarians is therefore concentrated, during this "extraordinary" period, within the committees. "The digital flows from videoconferencing sites are running at full speed," smiles a deputy. The fact-finding mission on the management of Covid-19, to the National Assembly, chaired by President Richard Ferrand is the most active since it must ensure the monitoring of emergency laws. She will receive, Wednesday, Nicole Belloubet, the Keeper of the Seals, to take stock of the situation in the prisons, then, Thursday, Christophe Castaner, the Minister of the Interior.

The fact-finding mission on the impact, management and consequences in all its dimensions of the # Covid19 epidemic begins its work.
➡️ Monitoring of the state of health emergency, management of the crisis and all its consequences.
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- National Assembly (@AssembleeNat) April 1, 2020

Next week, Bruno Le Maire, the Minister of the Economy and Nicole Pénicaud, the Minister of Labor, will be heard. "This mission aims to switch to a commission of inquiry when the deconfinement comes into force and that the deputies will be able to receive, under normal conditions, personalities other than the ministers," said one in the entourage of Richard Ferrand. .

Same desire for control of the Senate defended more than ever by its president, Senator LR Gérard Larcher. The eight standing committees are thus hearing this week and next week ministers and other senior officials. While monitoring cells have just been set up and powers of "mini-investigation" granted to certain commissions.

"The Prime Minister is extremely available"

The activity of the political groups in the two assemblies did not weaken either. Most of the internal meetings of the groups which took place in the morning at the start of the week had to be postponed until the afternoon, "so that the overseas deputies who are confined to their homes can participate from a distance", specifies an elected.

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Proof, too, that the democratic machine is not broken: the effort of transparency of the executive. "We must admit that the Prime Minister is extremely available and that he recognizes the place of Parliament," says Patrick Kanner, the president of the Socialist senators. Of course, the period remains special, marked in terms of public freedoms by a series of orders by which Parliament has delegated part of its powers to the government. "The activity of traditional parties seems to be reduced to nothing," said Jean-Luc Mélenchon in his latest blog Militer au temps du virus. And the leader of the Insoumis, and deputy for Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) to criticize in particular the “hearings of the fact-finding mission where the popular opposition has the right to two minutes of speaking time after more than two hours of macronist monologue. " It prevents ! The very rebellious rebellious France "plays the parliamentary game". It’s worth the effort…

Source: leparis

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