The President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet will launch a transpartisan working group “
in two weeks
” to reflect on several themes around the reform of institutions, she declared on Sunday in the JDD.
"
We will begin our work in two weeks with the horizon at the end of June
," she said.
In his television address of April 17, Emmanuel Macron had asked deputies and senators to think about proposals so that "
the functioning of our institutions becomes more efficient and citizen participation
".
The transpartisan group, made up of the group presidents of the National Assembly, will in particular look into the question of restoring the accumulation of mandates.
A dose of proportional to the legislative
The questions around the mandates are "
multiple
", noted Yaël Braun-Pivet.
“
Should they be limited to three consecutive ones?
Return to the presidential term?
Establish midterms with midterm legislative elections?
The President of the Assembly said she was "
rather personally in favor
" of the introduction of a dose of proportional representation in the legislative elections.
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“
Our fellow citizens seem to be satisfied with the absence of an absolute majority within a National Assembly where all the political forces are represented
,” she noted.
“
The introduction of a proportional dose would make it possible to perpetuate this state of affairs
”.
Finally, she pleads for “
rethinking
” the functioning of the referendum, whether it is a shared or presidential initiative, “
to make it more accessible and effective
”.
New political project
At the beginning of February, Emmanuel Macron had discreetly reopened the file of the reform of the institutions, presented by his camp as one of the major projects of the post-pension reform, by receiving successively at the Élysée Palace François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy.
Any revision of the Constitution presented by the executive must be adopted in the same terms by both chambers of Parliament and ultimately obtain a majority of three-fifths of parliamentarians, which requires broad cross-party compromises.
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During his first five-year term, the president had come up against the Senate, which was mainly on the right, and failed to bring about a reform which provided for a dose of proportionality in the method of electing deputies, the reduction in the number of parliamentarians, but also the limitation of their mandate to three consecutive.
