Parliament passes legal guidelines and the federal government applies them. Well nearly. For the primary time, Tuesday February 10, the National Assembly will look at in session the speed of software of legal guidelines which has fallen considerably since 2024. “It is a democratic requirement: we cannot vote on texts and find that they are not applied”lectured the president of the Palais-Bourbon, Yaël Braun-Pivet, throughout her greetings to the press on Thursday January 22. In latest weeks, she has subsequently instructed every committee president to make a listing of all pending decrees, the publication of which is the accountability of the federal government, to query within the Hemicycle the Minister of Relations with Parliament, Laurent Panifous, on these shortcomings throughout this XVIIe legislature.
The drop is certainly important: whereas the legislation enforcement charge was 87% between 2022 and 2024 (and above 90% earlier than that), it has fallen to 55% because the dissolution, the minister introduced on February 4. According to the legislation enforcement barometer, out there on the National Assembly web site, there are quite a few overdue texts. Of the 45 legal guidelines of this legislature requiring the publication of implementing decrees, solely eight are totally utilized. And solely 24% of measures are utilized inside six months after publication of the legislation. This deadline had nevertheless been set by a round from former Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne on December 27, 2022 to reply “to a triple requirement of democracy, legal security and political responsibility”.
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