And if the solution came from the cozy spans of the Luxembourg Palace? This is the meaning of Elisabeth Borne’s first intervention before the senators, Wednesday July 6. The Prime Minister notably praised “experience and practices” of the Senate of which she hears “to be inspired”. “I can’t imagine the Republic without the Senate”continued the head of government, before concluding that he “will more than ever be a center of balance and stability”. Some elected officials, like the president of the centrist group, Hervé Marseille, thought they detected “a form of affection”almost surprising, given the sometimes tense relations, since 2017, between the Senate and the Macronist power.
Senators still remember the ministers who regularly deserted their benches under Emmanuel Macron’s first five-year term. The texts, too, judged “poorly put together”. “Emergency procedures, bills disguised as bills to avoid impact studies, laws with forty-five articles, or even the multiplication of ordinances…”, énumère Patrick Kanner, the patron of socialist senators.
“During the previous term, the Senate was ignored, bypassed, avoided”, believes Hervé Marseille. The Senate has nevertheless imposed itself according to the commissions of inquiry and other fact-finding missions which have multiplied after the Benalla affair in 2018, to the point of annoying the executive, seeing there a cabal orchestrated by the right. senatorial.
Everything is forgotten. The president Les Républicains (LR) of the Senate, Gérard Larcher – who discreetly met the President of the Republic on June 13, as revealed Point –, pleads, too, for “a new method” with the government. “For each important text, I ask that we discuss it together before it is tied up, goes to the Council of State and is presented to the Council of Ministers”he replied in an interview with Free lunch, Wednesday, July 6, supporting the proposal of Mr.me Only one terminal « certain name of texts » be considered in the Senate “at first reading to go deeper, be less involved in the political coup”. Far from the outspoken frontal opposition, the senators reached an agreement with the National Assembly on “75% of laws” during the previous legislature. “We have already been practicing ‘text by text’ for five years”, explains the president of the LR group in the Senate, Bruno Retailleau.
Mr. Larcher, described by his peers as a “great diplomat from whom nothing escapes”, also knows that his majority extends from the conservative LR right to the centrist group, a quarter of which sponsored Emmanuel Macron in the presidential election. Therefore, this new configuration also forces the senatorial right to define the meaning of« opposition constructive » that she intends to embody.
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