As expected, the National Assembly, the highest collegiate body of the institution, considered admissible the procedure for the dismissal of the President of the Republic initiated by La France Insoumise (LFI). There was little uncertainty as the New Popular Front (NFP) has a majority in office (12 votes out of 22) and the socialist group had announced that its three members would vote in favour of the admissibility “as of right”, even though the group is fundamentally opposed to the dismissal of Emmanuel Macron.
Yaël Braun-Pivet, president of the National Assembly, sees in this decision a “misuse of the rule of law”The Yvelines MP is notably defending the position of her Socialist predecessor, Claude Bartolone, during the previous impeachment motion, tabled by LR in 2016, against François Hollande. “It is up to the members of the office to judge the seriousness of the reasons invoked and to verify whether they can be characterised as an infringement within the meaning of Article 68 of the Constitution.” A position that the former MP for Seine-Saint-Denis also supported on Tuesday in X.
The Socialists, but also some constitutional experts, rely on the parliamentary debates that led to the 2014 organic law specifying the conditions for applying the dismissal procedure. And the Socialist Party deputy for Calvados, Arthur Delaporte, quoted the then president of the legal commission, Jean-Jacques Urvoas: “ The admissibility of the position should not constitute a check on suitability. »
While the question on Tuesday morning was whether or not to authorize a debate, according to a procedure provided for by the Constitution, the Macronist camp considered it a “a declaration of war on our institutions”According to Gabriel Attal, who was present as president of the Ensemble pour la République (EPR) group at the office meeting. According to other participants, the former prime minister saw in the LFI initiative “the desire to destabilize not a man but the Republic”. He also bombarded the PS: “I find it serious, surprising and sad that the Socialist Party is so under the influence of one of its allies that it has turned its back on its history and its values.”
No decision taken
From now on, the dismissal procedure is being referred to the legal committee, but with no guarantee that it will be examined there, since the texts are ambiguous and the case law contradictory on the matter. The question is, in fact, whether the Macronists will wage a long procedural battle to avoid this examination or, on the contrary, will they put it on the agenda in order to quickly evacuate the motion which, little by little, has almost no chance of being approved. voted.
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