The reform of the Congress floor criticized by parliamentarians

Parliamentarians right and left have criticized Tuesday the proposal of Emmanuel Macron to amend the Constitution to allow him to listen to and respond to parliamentarians
at Congresses, accusing him of wanting to be a "president-prime minister."

Emmanuel Macron should soon be able to respond to parliamentarians when they speak in Congress. Until now, the Speaker was not present during the 10-minute speech by MPs and Senators. Next year, if the President keeps his word to bring the Congress to Versailles every year, it will no longer be the case. Emmanuel Macron announced on Monday: an amendment to the constitutional bill will be tabled in the week.

A commitment poorly received by some. "This is a perfectly fanciful proposal, simply because it touches the DNA, the heart of the balance of institutions of the Fifth Republic," denounced the patron of senators LR Bruno Retailleau on Europe 1. "C is an exit from the regime (…), he is no longer content to be a monarch president, he wants to cumulate and be a president-prime minister, "said the senator.

" A very amateur side "[19659006] "Victory! Macron bows. Next time he will have to listen and answer. Victoirissime, "then rejoiced on Twitter the leader of the deputies France insubordinate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, whose group had boycotted the Congress, citing in particular the impossibility of responding to the head of state. "There is a very amateur side in all this, we can not do everything like that in a hurry," on Tuesday criticized PS MP PS Stéphane Le Foll, saying that this revision was part of the disappearance of the role of the Prime Minister. "There is an affirmation of a plebiscitary power of Emmanuel Macron, that he will seek, that he wants, but which is a democratic problem."

Questioned on France 2 Tuesday, the Prime Minister Édouard Philippe has badured him that he was "very good" with the proposition. "What I find amusing if I dare say is that when the President of the Republic scrupulously respects the Constitution (…) it is criticized", and "when he proposes to modify it (…) we say" oh the ". We can not have everything, "he denounced, baduring that this would not change" the institutional functioning that makes the Prime Minister is there to implement the policy defined by the President. "

As for Richard Ferrand, leader of the LREM deputies, who had opposed a similar amendment tabled by the opposition, he recalled on France Inter that "the government (…) is responsible to the Parliament," not "the president of the Republic ". There is no doubt that the subject will be at the heart of the debates on the reform of the institutions, which opens in the Assembly.

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