Mathilde Panot, president of the LFI group in the National Assembly, announced on Tuesday September 3 that she would submit a proposed resolution aimed at dismissing Emmanuel Macron.
Actions after the announcement. After warning of its intention to initiate a procedure for the impeachment of Emmanuel Macron, the La France insoumise group in the National Assembly announced that it would submit its proposed resolution on Tuesday, September 3. The first step in a process supervised by Article 68 of the Constitution.
During a press conference on Tuesday, September 3, the group’s president, Mathilde Panot, indicated that her group would file it “today.”
“It is fitting to table a motion for a resolution aimed at dismissing the President of the Republic,” the head of the rebellious group told the press.
On Saturday, August 31, the Mélenchonist party warned that a proposed resolution to initiate the impeachment procedure against Emmanuel Macron had been sent to parliamentarians for co-signatures, in response to the president’s refusal to appoint the candidate of the New Popular Front, Lucie Castets, to Matignon.
“Political response”
According to Mathilde Panot, this is a “political response commensurate with the anti-democratic coup that the President of the Republic is currently carrying out” and “commensurate with the independence that Parliament must show in the face of a president who is increasingly acting like an autocrat”.
She explains that this resolution “will be signed more widely than the rebellious group” and will aim to have “a debate around the dangerous and erratic behavior of the President of the Republic.”
“The President of the Republic has lost two elections and finds himself forming his own government,” the MP laments.
Impeachment Unlikely
If LFI calls for the dismissal of the President of the Republic, the application of this motion is not so simple. To succeed, the text will have to be approved by the bureau of the National Assembly, where the NFP holds the majority. But the support of EELV, the PCF and the PS for the insoumis’ approach is not guaranteed at this stage.
Once this stage has been passed, the motion will have to be adopted in the Laws Committee, and in the Chamber by a two-thirds majority. A similar process must then be carried out in the Senate, before the High Court meets to rule. The latter has one month to decide, by secret ballot, on the impeachment, again by a two-thirds majority.
If LFI, with 72 deputies, can theoretically submit its resolution proposal alone (it takes one tenth of the 577 deputies to do so, i.e. more than 57 elected representatives) as it intends to do today, the party remains isolated at present on this individual initiative.
