Regularly, the subject invites itself into the conversation.
It has become almost banal, classic, as if permanently suspended in the air of the political sphere.
It is now a form of cliché: this presidential term will, perhaps, be held before its term by a dissolution of the National Assembly.
It must be said that the threat, in six months, has already been much agitated.
From time to time, this rare recourse in the Fifth Republic is brandished to discipline the presidential troops and their allies.
It acts as a wake-up call, indicating that MPs who are a bit overconfident can be brought back to voters with the snap of a finger.
“On pensions for example, at a time when every voice counts, it's a way of saying 'beware!
if you bother me, I'll send you back to the countryside”,
comments Benjamin Morel, lecturer in public law at the University of Paris-II Panthéon-Assas.
It is also a way of recalling the authority of a president whose second…
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