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Guillaume Tabard: "Mirages and necessities of democratic debate"

2021-04-02T18:07:38.788Z


COUNTER-POINT - Parliamentarians had to vote for health measures announced the day before by the president, reviving the eternal debate between the executive and legislative power.


Parliament despised, Parliament outraged, Parliament humiliated.

After Thursday's debate, the oppositions sang the eternal lament against the executive.

As for Jean Castex, his annoyance at the Assembly platform is only the echo of the no less traditional exasperation of governments against the necessarily contradictory injunctions of various oppositions.

Let us relativize the game of postures.

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Parliament despised?

It is certainly baroque to vote on measures announced the day before.

If deputies or senators had voted against, would the schools have remained open for the next few weeks?

Conversely, if emergency measures were pending pending legislative ratification, how many elected officials would denounce the delays in implementation?

In fact, two debates collide: the cyclical one on the management of the Covid, and the structural one on the balance of power.

It all depends on the President of the Republic alone, they say.

As proof, the 55 Councils

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Source: lefigaro

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