2023-12-13 04:37:44
A setback, then a debate? After suffering a failure in the National Assembly on its immigration bill, the government is opposed to the idea of dissolving the Upper House, despite calls to this effect from certain political figures.
“Faced with this major political crisis, we must return to the people. And one of the ways to return to the people, who in democracy are the ultimate sovereign, is the dissolution of the National Assembly,” declared the president of the National Rally Jordan Bardella, this Tuesday on BFMTV-RMC.
The National Assembly on Monday rejected the immigration text on which the government has been seeking to find a compromise for more than a year. For MEP Jordan Bardella, “it is the sign of a power that is losing its footing, of a power that has lost all its authority and which no longer controls anything in our society.”
“The only honorable path when we are faced with a major political crisis is to return to the people,” he insisted, judging with regard to the presidential camp that “by dint of having erected 49.3 in method of government, they forgot that they were a minority.”
“We cannot vote on important texts”
Other anonymous sources have also campaigned for a dissolution. “I dream of having the great Macron who clears them all and dissolves” the Assembly, slipped an executive from the presidential camp to AFP on Monday evening. “We dissolve!” », added early support from the Head of State, noting that if the “small texts” pass, “we cannot vote on the important texts”.
However, the idea of dissolution is not considered by the government. Asked about this, government spokesperson Olivier Véran replied “not to agree with that”.
“We have adopted more than 50 texts in a year and a half in Parliament,” he added during the report of the Council of Ministers. “The French wanted us not to be able to decide alone, for me, this is how I understand the political message sent by the French in June 2022,” added Olivier Véran.
Conversely, the government plans to convene “as quickly as possible” a Joint Commission (CMP) bringing together deputies and senators to find “a compromise between the majority and the oppositions” on the immigration bill.
A CMP, which brings together seven deputies and seven senators behind closed doors to try to agree on a version of the text, could make it possible to arrive at a common version, but the majority would have to pass under the caudine forks of LR to arrive at a agreement. This common version should then be voted on in the Senate and the National Assembly. It will be considered “conclusive” if the 14 elected officials who make it up manage to reach an agreement.
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