A "commission" to rewrite article 24: Larcher asks Castex to "renounce"

It was the other great voice expected after that of Richard Ferrand, President of the Assembly.

Gérard Larcher, LR president of the Senate asked in a letter to Jean Castex to “renounce” the creation of a commission to rewrite article 24 of the “Global security” law.

“It is up to Parliament, within the framework of a democratic and public debate, to draft or rewrite the laws.

This role does not fall to one more commission or committee of experts which has no democratic legitimacy, ”writes Gérard Larcher.

This "independent commission charged with proposing a new writing" of the controversial article was announced Thursday by Jean Castex.

An announcement which set fire to the majority, provoking in particular the "opposition" of the president of Richard Ferrand (LREM) and "the astonishment" of Christophe Castaner, boss of the LREM group in the Assembly as well as many deputies of the majority.

All the political class concerned

On the right, already, the boss of senators LR Bruno Retailleau had estimated on Twitter that "appointing a Théodule committee to rewrite an article of law in full examination is a constitutional absurdity and a political fault".

"In the kind of contempt for Parliament, it starts to do a lot ..." For the president of the PS group in the Senate Patrick Kanner, "this will" of the government to bypass parliament is "very problematic".

“In one decision, Jean Castex disavows himself, disavows G. Darmanin, and more seriously: liquidates Parliament.

Dangerous.

If the Prime Minister wants to dissolve the Assembly, let him do it properly ”, added in a tweet the deputy and spokesperson for the PS Boris Vallaud.

At LFI, the deputy Eric Coquerel called on the Prime Minister to "stop (r) the costs", but also to "remove (r) this article 24", noting that "the entire bill on Global Security poses a problem" because it is a "law of generalized, unequal and liberticidal surveillance".

On the far right, the deputy and spokesperson for the National Rally Sébastien Chenu judged the Prime Minister's initiative "completely contrary to the use that can be made of parliament".