Matignon from each angle | EUROtoday

“Failing to constitute the keystone, Matignon is the nerve center of our institutional system”says Eric Thiers, senior official and particular advisor to the Prime Minister, François Bayrou, within the preface to the journal Powers. Devoted to the prerogatives and the affect of the pinnacle of presidency underneath the V^e Republic, the variety of the primary half of 2025 gives, in these instances of presidency instability and doubt of residents, a number of important lights on the functioning of our semi-presidential regime.

On greater than 100 pages, a dozen lecturers and specialists in authorities’s mysteries dissect the a number of sides of energy entrusted to the Prime Minister, which regularly overflows the constitutional framework. In an article dedicated to relations between the Elysée and Matignon, Delphine Dulong, professor of political science at Paris-i Panthéon-Sorbonne University, stresses that these two establishments “Interdependent” are “Condemned to work canned” and that this “Dyarchie” is on the supply of the “Presidentialist drift of the regime”.

Influence areas

For Christophe Le Digol, lecturer in political science at Paris-Nanterre University, the tenant of Matignon is just not as highly effective as some want to consider. If he has “Important political capital”he underlines, this capital by no means “Don’t go without saying”. “The Prime Ministerhe analyzes, is an institution certainly weakly codified, but whose authority and the margins of play are above all defined by its relations with the other institutions of the V^e Republic. »»

The review also ventures into less known, but just as strategic influence spaces for the Matignon tenant. She is thus interested in the administrative and normative power of the Prime Minister, who contributes to her autonomy, but also in her informal ties with the Constitutional Council. “The Prime Minister embraces, by the overall secretariat of the federal government, the vocation of defender of the regulation and, in so doing, turns into the privileged interlocutor of the smart males”writes Charles-Edouard Sénac, professor of public law at the University of Bordeaux.

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