National Assembly, six months in the cauldron: has the practice of power changed?

by time news

The appearance of a relative majority at the end of the June legislative elections, an unprecedented event since 1988, shook the political landscape. Especially since then, there was less lack of votes for Michel Rocard, Prime Minister of François Mitterrand, than today for Élisabeth Borne and Emmanuel Macron to have their bills voted on. Some wonder if the functioning of the Fifth Republic, based on the presence in the National Assembly of a dominating presidential majority, because holding more than 50% of the seats, would not be seized up or even blocked. Others predicting the return of a Parliament (Assembly plus Senate, the latter being with an LR majority) playing a central role in the political system, as under the fragile and unstable Fourth Republic (1945-1958).

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