A edifying stroll behind the scenes of the Constitutions | EUROtoday

What if France modified its structure? This concept, defended yesterday by François Mitterrand and in the present day by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, has been gaining floor for the reason that legislative elections of 2022, and much more for the reason that dissolution of the National Assembly of June 2024: if the establishments created in 1958 by General de Gaulle resisted the Putsch des Généraux (1961), the dying of Georges Pompidou (1974), two waves of assaults (1995 and 2015) and at COVVI-19 (2020), they’re now weakened By the eclipse of the “majority fact”, this small political miracle which, from 1962 to 2022, had all the time introduced out a majority within the National Assembly.

His disappearance generated a political disaster and, typically, an aspiration for a change of structure, that Carolina Cerda-Guzman, lecture of conferences in public regulation on the University of Bordeaux, evaluation in Get out of the V^e (Detour, 158 pages, 15.90 euros). Admittedly, she admits, the lifeless finish born of dissolution can’t, by itself, justify an institutional revolution, but it surely “Naked”in response to her, previous flaws: if the unbalanced equipment of the V^e Republic has been working since 1958, it’s as a result of a number of establishments, most frequently Parliament, have given up utilizing the powers devolved to them – a scenario that nobody can rejoice.

“Citizen factory”

More than a brand new founding textual content, the constitutionalist proposes, on this clear and academic work, a way and above all a precept: “Allow an effective and constant exercise of citizenship”. Inspired by the constituent processes applied throughout historical past, Carolina Cerda-Guzman advocates to develop the “hourglass” methodology drawn up in 1995 by the Norwegian political scientist and thinker Jon Elster-a giant referendum on the precept of change of structure, then an meeting chargeable for writing the brand new textual content, lastly a referendum to approve it.

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