Jean-Jacques Urvoas, former PS deputy from Finistère, was chairman of the law commission of the National Assembly from 2012 to 2016. He is a lecturer in public law.
Forty-four votes are missing for the president in the Palais Bourbon and some observers immediately condemned the five-year term to immobility.
Others have summoned the ghosts of Mac Mahon summoned by Gambetta in 1877 to
“submit or resign”
.
The most gloomy predicted the “blockage of the regime due to an ungovernable Assembly”.
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We can obviously, drawing inspiration from Chateaubriand, consider that if the storms are desired, sooner or later they will rise.
But it is also not prohibited to recall that the Constitution was precisely designed to deal with the hypothesis of a government deprived of an absolute majority in the Assembly.
And in fact, when this situation arose in November 1958 and then in June 1988, the mechanisms imagined made it possible to guarantee stability and the action of power...
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