“The President must not add procrastination to the dissolution” | EUROtoday

UA poisonous poison has been parasitizing our democracy for the reason that legislative elections, that of a triple mystification. It is time to manage the antidote of reality.

First mystification: the President of the Republic should look forward to the political events to comply with appoint the Prime Minister. This is Emmanuel Macron's idea. It is opposite to the spirit of the Constitution. In the Constitution, the Head of State appoints a Prime Minister (Article 8); the National Assembly grants him its confidence or censures him (Articles 49 and following). In different phrases: the President proposes; the Assembly disposes. Nothing can exempt the Head of State from fulfilling this mission; nothing authorizes him to refer it to others. This is of nice significance within the present confusion.

Everyone is aware of that there isn’t any longer a majority within the Assembly to help a authorities. The solely factor that may be hoped for is that there isn’t any majority to overthrow it, not less than initially. So what’s the level of ready? The constitutional deadlines for France's funds are quick approaching. Delaying the formation of a authorities doesn’t improve the probabilities of discovering a majority. The president should not add procrastination to dissolution.

The state of affairs is definitely unprecedented below the V^e Republic. But it was frequent earlier than, below the Third^e and IV^e Republics. The function of the president has at all times been to carry a couple of mixture of presidency so {that a} funds and reforms might be voted on. This function has not disappeared. It has been elevated by our Constitution. It has given the president (and the federal government) highly effective technique of motion to cope with the divisions of the French.

Second mystification: with 193 deputies out of 577, the New Popular Front has the vocation to control. The left-wing events have fashioned a fragile coalition. Do they actually consider that with a 3rd of the seats, one has the vocation to control? Is this democracy? No republican custom accredits such a declare.

Faced with the confirmed hostility of two-thirds of the deputies, there may be not the slightest likelihood {that a} New Popular Front authorities will escape censure. Why faux to disregard it? Why ought to such an illegitimate authorities be given the leisure to take measures by decree that might trigger inflation to rise, unemployment to blow up and deficits to soar earlier than an inevitable censure?

The solely reality of suffrage

Third mystification: the National Rally (RN) had its victory stolen from it. The RN didn’t attain a 3rd of the votes within the first spherical of the legislative elections. With proportional illustration, which it advocates, it will not have had nearly all of seats both. Only huge three-way contests might have allowed it to acquire an absolute majority of seats whereas remaining a minority in votes. But such a phenomenon would have been unprecedented below the Fifth^e Republic, an actual democratic anomaly.

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