Unwritten laws have an advantage for
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at the same time
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adherents .
We can alternately respect them or derogate from them, in a totally arbitrary way.
Emmanuel Macron, for example, who had chosen to perpetuate the rule - enacted by Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007 - that ministers who were defeated in the legislative elections must resign, stuck to it the day after the June election.
Thus, despite their eminently strategic portfolios, Brigitte Bourguignon (Health), Amélie de Montchalin (Ecological Transition) and Justine Benin (Sea) were all dismissed after their defeats respectively in Pas-de-Calais, in Essonne and in Guadeloupe.
But the same Emmanuel Macron, who had also chosen to perpetuate the rule - enacted by Lionel Jospin in 1997 - that members of the government do not combine their national portfolio with a local executive mandate, seems less and less observant over time. .
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