Michel Barnier organizes a debate on the National Assembly to show a united entrance of refusal | EUROtoday

The free commerce settlement between the European Union (EU) and the Mercosur nations (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia) was included in farmers’ demonstrations and can quickly be within the National Assembly . The authorities has requested the group of a debate throughout the framework of article 50-1 of the Constitution, adopted by a vote, scheduled for Tuesday November 26. The result’s in little question because the settlement is rejected by nearly all benches. First scheduled for December 10, the controversy will lastly happen two weeks earlier, for concern that the settlement won’t be signed by then. The official signing of the treaty may happen throughout the Mercosur summit, scheduled for December 5-7, in Montevideo, Uruguay.

La France insoumise (LFI) was fast to drag the plug. The group recalled having placed on the agenda of its parliamentary “niche”, on November 28, a proposed decision “inviting the government to refuse ratification” of the commerce settlement. But, thought of as a “injunction” to the federal government, the movement for a decision was deemed inadmissible.

Sunday, on France 3, the chief of LFI, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, requested the group of a vote within the Assembly. So, thanks Michel Barnier? “I don’t say thank you, I say victory! »proclaimed, Tuesday, Mathilde Panot (Val-de-Marne), the president of the “rebellious” group, after having realized of the Prime Minister’s want to make a declaration to the National Assembly, adopted by a debate and of a vote.

Symbolic vote

A studying of occasions contested by the federal government. This initiative – “requested by Common Core groups and others”we are saying to Matignon – is described because the continuation of Michel Barnier’s listening posture in direction of deputies and senators. “It is important that Parliament plays its role. With the organization of this democratic debate, he is within his rights”explains the Prime Minister’s entourage.

The Loire deputy Antoine Vermorel-Marques (Les Républicains, LR) acknowledges that it was following the inadmissibility of the “rebellious” decision proposal that he first had the concept of ​​organizing a vote within the National Assembly on the settlement with Mercosur. At the start of November, he submitted it to Michel Barnier, to whom he’s shut, and exhibited it publicly in OpinionNovember 15.

Article 50-1, launched throughout the constitutional reform of 2008, provides a intelligent means for the federal government to make a declaration on a selected topic giving rise to a debate, or perhaps a vote, with out incurring accountability. A vote is just not even compulsory and stays fairly symbolic. Often, the federal government solely asks for a vote when it is aware of it is going to win. Even when he is aware of that he can drive a tactical wedge into the oppositions: this was the case on March 12, throughout a debate which noticed the left divided on the query of France’s army help to the ‘Ukraine.

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