Since the dissolution of the National Assembly, the Master Senate of the Parliamentary Game | EUROtoday

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The Minister of Economy and Finance, Eric Lombard (right), in the Senate, in Paris on January 23, 2025.

The authorities of Michel Barnier (September-December 2024) had marked a change in fact. After the dissolution of the National Assembly on June 9, 2024, the Prime Minister, appointed the next September 5, joined his workforce ten senators and senators. An unprecedented truth within the historical past of the Ve Republic, the place his predecessor Gabriel Attal (January-September 2024) had fully skipped on the Palais du Luxembourg. They are nonetheless seven representatives of the Senate within the authorities of François Bayrou.

Without a majority on the Palais-Bourbon, the Bayrou authorities, simply as its predecessor had tried to take action, is especially based mostly on the Senate to legislate. This has not at all times been the case Under the chairmanship of Emmanuel Macron. “Relations were cool in the first mandate. The government considered that the Senate was not docile enough ”acknowledges Hervé Marseille, senator of Hauts-de-Seine and president of the Union Centrist group.

Today, the principle texts typically come From the Senate, from the Narcotrafic Act to texts on agriculture or to the reform of public audiovisual. It can also be there that discussions on the 2025 price range occurred and the place the 2026 price range will undoubtedly be completed, whereas the National Assembly dangers being disadvantaged of debates.

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