Gérard Larcher is the president of the Senate, member of the Republicans.
LE FIGARO.
- Before relaunching
the debate in the Senate
, how do you judge the state of parliamentarism in our country?
Gerard LARCHER.
-
Parliamentarism and democracy are damaged.
The French no longer find themselves there and it has not started in the National Assembly in recent weeks.
This observation leads us to the rise of abstention and extremes.
In Parliament, but this also applies to the executive, we have allowed ourselves to be dispossessed of the power to act by dint of transferring responsibilities to administrative authorities, independent or to some extent to Brussels, and I am a convinced European.
How can you guarantee that we will not witness the same
chaotic sessions seen in the Assembly
?
Here, we don't have La France insoumise!
The senatorial tradition leads us to a debate on the merits, to respect for differences and to a certain conception of representative democracy...
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