He is the new muse of a political mode recently converted to the charms of constitutional law.
The shared initiative referendum had however been conceived as the abortion of the constitutional reform of 2008. Introduced in the Constitution in article 11 to deceive those who claimed more direct democracy, the organic law having to allow its implementation in application waited five years to see the light of day, a sign of the urgency that parliamentarians felt to see this text applied...
However, since the referendum opposing the privatization of Aéroport de Paris gathered 1.09 million signatures, the tool seems to have entered the panoply of opposition action repertoires.
Launching a shared initiative referendum first involves bringing together a fifth of the members of Parliament.
This distinguishes it on this point essentially and fundamentally from a citizens' initiative referendum such as one finds in Switzerland or the United States.
Because she…
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