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How did we get there? How did it occur that Emmanuel Macron introduced the dissolution of the National Assembly on June 9, 2024, resulting in the legislative elections which resulted, on July 7, in a Hemicycle with out an absolute majority? When, in September 2023, Emilie Lançon, reporter and director (ENA, why a lot hatredin 2021), determined to observe the primary president of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet (elected in 2022, re-elected on July 18, 2024), she couldn’t think about that this unprecedented chain response would result in censorship of the Barnier authorities.

For a 12 months, the journalist sneaked by means of the corridors, attended the debates, particularly these held then on using 49.3 and on the “immigration” regulation. Above all, she adopted within the footsteps of the president in her a number of conferences, performed with the fixed conviction {that a} compromise is feasible.

The introduced intention is then to indicate most people that, behind the over-publicized invectives – nearly absent right here –, French deputies are working in a constructive method. As proof, 141 legal guidelines have been handed between 2022 and 2024. Involuntarily, nevertheless, the movie additionally exhibits the inevitability of the dissolution of June, and even the autumn of the federal government on December 5.

Right to abortion within the structure

Certainly, Yaël Braun-Pivet was in a position to innovate, particularly by establishing month-to-month conferences with the presidents of teams and by creating “transpartisan work”, on the origin of eight legal guidelines handed – together with that on the ban on puffs (cigarettes disposable electronics), adopted intimately within the movie. Certainly, the inclusion by Parliament of the fitting to abortion within the Constitution is skilled as a “enchanted parenthesis”.

But when the topics turn out to be extra political, the dialogue turns into murderous little sentences and political calculations. The follow-up to the controversy on the funds vote is an illustration of this. It additionally permits the insertion of an instructive sequence on using article 49 paragraph 3 of the Constitution (the well-known 49.3) and its democratic counterweight: the movement of censure…

During one of many conferences to attempt to renew the dialogue, the president of the socialist group, Boris Vallaud, nevertheless, intervened: “It’s all distracting, but the V^e Republic does not operate with a relative majority. We try to start a car with a wrench. If we can improve things, so much the better. But it doesn’t work. » The documentary could have ended there. But the debates on the “immigration” regulation will affirm his statements and permit the citizen to know the problems of a rejection movement or the function of the Constitutional Council. Mariama Darame, journalist at World and speaker right here, deciphers: “What they like is to endanger Gérald Darmanin”, then Minister of the Interior.

Until the tip, together with after his re-election to the perch on July 18, Yaël Braun-Pivet sees on this new Hemicycle nonetheless with out an absolute majority “an opportunity to rebalance power”. The alternative shattered 5 months in a while the wall of French political actuality.