The dissolution of the National Assembly, the counterproductive risk of Sébastien Lecornu | EUROtoday
By elevating the specter of a dissolution of the National Assembly on Friday January 9, the Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, most likely didn’t anticipate to be confronted together with his duties in flip. Far from impressing the deputies, the instruction given on Friday by the Prime Minister to the Minister of the Interior, Laurent Nuñez, to arrange the group of attainable legislative elections on the dates of the municipal elections, March 15 and 22, felt by elected officers as a type of blackmail, seems to be singularly counterproductive.
The risk from the top of presidency, offered as a response to motions of censure on the settlement between the European Union and the Mercosur international locations, whereas France voted towards this treaty, “makes no sense”estimated, on Sunday, François Hollande, visitor of this system “Political Questions” on France Inter (with Franceinfo and The World). “The role of a prime minister (…) it’s still about putting a little stability where there is worry”reminded the previous President of the Republic of Sébastien Lecornu.
He wasn’t the one one to lecture him. “Making use of the specter of dissolution to scare parliamentary teams nervous about their political survival is neither worthy of the features exercised, nor in accordance with the spirit of our establishments, castigated the president (Les Républicains, LR) of Hauts-de-France Xavier Bertrand in The Parisian Sunday. We don’t run a rustic via worry, stress or institutional blackmail. »
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