the LFI proposal arrives in committee at the National Assembly

POLITICS – Should we dismiss Emmanuel Macron for having “refused to recognize the result” legislative elections? The idea, launched by the Insoumis, will be submitted for examination to the Law Commission of the National Assembly, with little chance of success.

After a first green light given on September 17 by the Office of the National Assembly, the proposed resolution aimed at dismissing the Head of State, under article 68 of the Constitution, must be examined this Wednesday, October 2 from 10 a.m. by the 73 deputies of the Law Commission.

For its promoters, from the Insoumis ranks, this text aims to denounce the « vol » of the election results and a “democratic coup” by Emmanuel Macron. Whatever the outcome of Wednesday’s vote, it will then be up to the conference of political group presidents to decide within 13 days whether the text should proceed to the next stage, that is to say an examination in the hemicycle.

What are the chances of success?

This proposal has little chance of being adopted in fine, since it must be approved by two thirds of parliamentarians, deputies and senators combined. “At this time, it is not a question of dismissing the president, but of allowing the Assembly and the Senate to meet in the High Court to be able to judge the relevance of this dismissal”argued Tuesday at a press conference the LFI deputy Antoine Léaument.

The communists and overseas of the GDR group hope that “the institutions will not yet be hijacked” and should therefore also vote for it, underlined MP Émeline K/Bidi. Same position from environmentalists: “this regime is running out of steam” and one « discussion » is necessary for “call into question the presidentialism of the Fifth Republic”MP Pouria Amirshahi told AFP.

If the socialists agreed to transmit the text to the Law Commission, they warned that they would vote “unanimously” against this procedure which, according to them, risks “give new legitimacy” to the head of state because she is “doomed to fail”.

The National Rally also ruled out voting for this text, with Marine Le Pen denigrating a “smoke maneuver” of “the extreme left”. As does the small centrist Liot group: “this procedure will not succeed”and therefore “interests us very little”evacuated MP Olivier Serva on Tuesday. Debating it is just one “waste of time”added his colleague Harold Huwart.

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