are deputies still useful?

are deputies still useful?
are deputies still useful?

Cis new. For the first time in the history of the Ve Republic, the National Assembly will not examine the expenditure part of the budget. The revenue component having been rejected this Tuesday by a large majority of deputies – the text had been largely distorted by the NFP – the 2025 finance bill indeed arrived in its initial version in the Senate. The deputies are biting their fingers and the senators are rubbing their hands…

“The statue was disfigured and our job is to make it presentable,” philosophizes a right-wing senator. “Leave it to the professionals!” » jubilantly another elected official from the Upper House. What a turnaround in the situation: the Senate, which Charles de Gaulle derided and which Lionel Jospin had described in 1998 as a democratic “anomaly”, has…


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