Benjamin Morel is a lecturer in public law at the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas.
LE
FIGARO.- Why did the Constitutional Council reject on Friday the request for a referendum of shared initiative filed by the parliamentary left in March?
Benjamin MOREL.-
The Council criticizes the text of the referendum of shared initiative proposed by the left-wing opposition for not representing a reform according to article 11 of the Constitution, which provides for a restricted scope of the referendum in its matters.
Among them, the left presented its text as "
reform relating to the economic, social or environmental policy of the nation
".
However, the term “
reform
” implies that the text modifies the state of the existing law.
One does not reform by proposing the identical.
However, here, the text merely recalled the state of the law.
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