Emmanuel Macron will not be removed from office. The dismissal procedure, filed against him by the elected officials of La Francia Insumisa (LFI), was rejected by the Legal Commission on Wednesday, October 2. At the end of a debate “very good suit”with “very profound comments”, According to the president of the Law Commission, Florent Boudié (Renaissance, Gironde), the deputies overwhelmingly rejected, with 54 votes against and 15 in favor, the possibility of establishing a High Court to examine the draft resolution signed by all the ” rebels.” “Elected officials and some elected environmentalists and communists.
Their complaints crystallize in the refusal of the Elysée tenant to appoint Lucie Castets, candidate of the New Popular Front, to Matignon, while the left-wing coalition obtained first place in the legislative elections of June 30 and July 7. Far from limiting themselves to legal issues, each side knew how to develop their reading of the presidential election, the dissolution of the National Assembly on June 9, the appointment of Michel Barnier in Matignon in a record period of 51 days and, more broadly, the process which led to the election of a man from a party that rejected the Republican barrier in the second round of the legislative elections and obtained 5% of the votes.
The rapporteur of the text, the elected environmentalist of Isère Jérémie Iordanoff, estimated “that these political errors, given their accumulation and repercussions, can constitute a breach” presidential duties, but that the lack of parliamentary consensus invalidated the idea.
Unprecedented nature of the debate
If the procedure cannot be successful taking into account the political balances of Parliament, the “rebels” include this tactical move in their history of “the agony of the Vmy Republic » : “Censoring the government is necessary, but insufficient. The problem is not only in Matignon, but also in the Elysée. And by proposing to remove Mr. Macron, we want to resolve this problem by constitutional means.” stated the LFI deputy from Essone, Antoine Léaument, judging this “historic day”.
The speaker insisted on the unprecedented nature of the debate, which gave rise to a new jurisprudence of article 68 of the Constitution, which regulates the criminal but also political responsibility of the Head of State since the constitutional review of 2008. The latter is not politically responsible before Parliament, unlike your government, which can be censured.
“Using impeachment as a tool of political combat is playing with democracy” criticized the Renaissance deputy for Yvelines Aurore Bergé. Despite its resentment against Macron, the former presidential majority spoke out in unison against “a communication trick” and a “perversion of parliamentary procedure”. The first opposition group in the National Assembly, the National Rally, through its spokespersons, denounced: “disorder” instilled by LFI.
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