Emmanuel Macron invents the political France. Out of Nothing, he won with his movement, presidential and parliamentary elections – and now much will be different in the fifth Republic.
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Macrons Milestones
The great Cutlery, it must be. A certain penchant for dramaturgy must be the President of Macron said: Not only backbenchers heads to hear themselves speak blaspheme, more or less, according to the urge of the recently elected government – and not just anywhere, but in front of both chambers of the Parliament, in the Palace of Versailles. Mon Dieu.
President Macron wants to be made to
But who had expected a political theory of harmony, had to rethink that afternoon in Versailles. In-depth reforms for the house of representatives and the Minister announces Macron, nothing less than that, and if it has to be with the Referendum. Boom. This is the drumbeat that the least had expected and now many members of Parliament first need to digest. Lay back and relax, talk and listen to day-to-day business pass – fail indicator.
Since Noon, a brisk traffic between the capital and Versailles prevailed. Tour buses brought the members in the West of Paris. The Republican guard lined presiding dentiell the red carpet, the seven stairs up to the entrance doors.
On the red carpet, Emmanuel Macron (2 remained. v. R) before his speech
The pompous part is in contrast to what the President wants to do: Less is more, the new attitude seems to be. Macron wants to be made to, and, in concrete terms, the institutions are reformed. About one-third less members there should be “for a better-functioning house of representatives”. A more efficient Republic should not be permitted to lose themselves in the Legislative process without results, the President.
Efficiency, Representation, Responsibility
Not only the Parliament will shrink. The government is too inflated. Only ten employees per Minister, Macron, which should be enough for a “more direct and more immediate communication between the Minister and the Cabinet”. A significant reform of the wish he cherishes to a very French Institution, the Cour de Justice, the court of justice of the Republic, which was, so far, only about etwaigere Misdemeanours of Ministers. Him he wants most of all to abolish, “you could explain to a French that, nowadays, why the Minister would be entitled to a private court”. Boom. Also comes unexpectedly.
Elegant Volte or coarse pull out of the Republic?
Well-minded to see the very unusual appearance in Versailles as a new style that can be good for a struggling Republic. “A surprising speech” attest to him, the socialists, an elegant Volte and not a crude the convening of the two chambers in Versailles evaluated the conservative Senator Roger Karoutchi (LR): “I am in favour of this, and in addition, it should be quiet, regularly be pulling in and out “.
Unfamiliar surroundings: Macrons speech in the Palace of Versailles
Completely Macron does not dispel the skepticism but. In fact, the “maneuver of Versailles is” so exceptional as to be risky for a President. The French Constitution allows the extraordinary Assembly of both chambers, but the height has to be right. For example, “if the unity of the Nation stand on the game”, the Parisian political scientist Jerome Sainte-Marie. How and when exactly this is the case, is, of course, at the discretion of the President. Small print there is not.
Twice it happened under the fifth Republic to date: predecessor, Nicholas Sarkozy, ordered the deputies whether or not the turbulence of the Euro crisis. The deselected socialist Francois Hollande, gathered the members of Parliament after the attacks of 13. November in Paris. The sense, Sainte-Marie: “to send a message of unity across all political camps”.
Political opponents accuse Macron monarchical derailment
A President who tells his deputies what they have to do or have, has always been regarded as spicy in France. Too fast for the French, it is reminiscent of unsightly images of an all-powerful sun king, to Napoleon. Not for nothing, the Republicans prohibited according to their power in 1870 takeover of the presidential right to speak before both chambers.
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“To put before the Congress in Versailles, is a monarchist derailment” according to the followers of the extreme left Jean-Luc Melenchon with your movement La France Insoumise. You boycott Macrons speech. For the first Time ever in the history of the fifth Republic, members stay away from a Convention. Criticism comes also from more moderate page: “Macron operates here, the President of the institutions and far more and more of our Republic”, criticised the Conservative Bernard Accoyer, a long-time member and former President of the national Assembly.
A President gets the curve
Back to the case height. All the same, which seems to have Emmanuel Macron, in the eyes of political observers with his speech is not missed. The prophecies of doom, the President of abuse of Versailles for an extended election campaign, sees a political scientist Jerome Sainte-Marie has not been confirmed. On the contrary, Macron have surprisingly the curve way get and also the role of his Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe outlined. This could now be addressed primarily to the political rights – explain how the government intended to implement these necessary reforms. Emmanuel Macron wants to keep every year, similar to the American President, a “state of the Nation”, will see experts such as Sainte-Marie-critical. Versailles should not become a habit, because: “too Much presidential posturing, the French very quickly on the nerves and is directly punished”.