For a new political situation, a new institutional practice.
The text of the Constitution has not changed, but article 49-3 has changed in nature.
This is what has rendered vain the real false suspense maintained on its use and its calendar.
For two months, the executive hesitated between the trivialization of a tool that he guessed inevitable and the dramatization of a weapon of last resort.
Until thinking of scoring a point against Jean-Luc Mélenchon by activating it the day after he announced it.
The surprise effect made sense in the parliamentary "old world", when the ruling party had a majority group or coalition.
It was then a question of warding off defections.
That of the RPR when Raymond Barre was at Matignon, that of the PC under Rocard, that of the “slingers” under Holland.
Considering article 49-3 was therefore a threat, aimed at elements of his own majority.
It was a question of responding to an unexpected, one-off or unusual situation.
Hence, in good…
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