Marine Le Pen and the Greens demand an extraordinary session in Parliament
While the head of the National Rally (RN) deputies, Marine Le Pen, renewed on Monday her request to call an extraordinary session of Parliament in September, the ecological and social group of the Assembly did the same, denouncing “a democratically unsustainable situation”.
“It is intolerable that parliamentarians do not meet in extraordinary session”writes M.me Le Pen in an open letter, published on the social network X, addressed to the other group leaders of the National Assembly and the Senate.
Last week, after an interview with Emmanuel Macron at the Elysée Palace, he had already called for Parliament to be convened before the appointment of a new prime minister. This will in any case be necessary so that the new head of government can deliver his general policy speech.
This time m.me Le Pen proposes to her counterparts “working towards a consensual agenda” for this extraordinary session, which he believes should “to prepare a debate on the situation of French public finances and social security”. Parliament must “address this issue as soon as possible, in particular by examining the law approving the 2023 financial year”He stressed that this text must be voted on before the examination of the 2025 budget, which the government must transmit no later than 1Ahem October.
Until then, other topics could also be discussed, such as: “the conditions for the start of the school and/or university year, the situation of our cereal producers after the poor harvests (…) or even health policy »adds the leader of the far-right party’s deputies.
For its part, the environmental and social group of the Assembly also called for an extraordinary session in a press release, considering that “Emmanuel Macron’s obsession with ensuring the continuity of a policy rejected by the French is leading to the blockade of an entire country”. According to left-wing MPs, Emmanuel Macron “He has plunged the country into uncertainty by announcing the dissolution; he cannot delay the expression of this new Assembly any longer.”
The group also reaffirms its support for the candidacy of Lucie Castets, “Matignon’s only candidate who can claim a relative majority formed by the coalition with the largest number of seats in the National Assembly: the New Popular Front”The deputies write. In order to meet in extraordinary sessions, Parliament must be convened by the President of the Republic.
The Communists also called for an extraordinary session of Parliament last week. Questioned on the subject on Sunday, the president of the Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, elected from among the presidential candidates, was in favour. In the event of the appointment of a prime minister, “I will request an extraordinary session,” because, “In the current political circumstances, we cannot fail to listen to and question the Prime Minister who will be appointed to his government”he said on France Inter.
