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Should we review the functioning and powers of Parliament?

2021-11-30T19:48:17.012Z


DECRYPTION - A report by the president of the National Assembly's Law Commission formulates 25 proposals to “rebalance the powers” ​​between the executive and the legislative.


On the institutional level, the Macron five-year term will have been a white presidency.

The President of the Republic has given up trying to complete the projects of the candidate who had promised to reduce the number of parliamentarians by a third, to introduce a dose of proportionality in the election of deputies and to limit the number of deputies over time. consecutive mandates exercised.

For lack of the required political majority - two thirds for constitutional reforms - and lack of will - proportionality could have been adopted with its majority in the Assembly, has therefore given up on relaunching a debate which is still highly symbolic.

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What balance if the Assembly was elected proportional?

LREM member of Yvelines and president of the law committee, Yaël Braun-Pivet is putting the subject back on the table today.

But with a decidedly opposite approach.

To a political shock, it opposes technical adjustments;

to great theoretical debates, practical solutions.

"Parliament is the place of democratic debate, but a straitjacket of rules prevents it from

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Source: lefigaro

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