Paris (AFP)
The project of reform of the institutions, Emmanuel Macron's electoral promise already postponed twice, is on the menu of the council of ministers on Wednesday.
During his policy statement on June 12, Edouard Philippe had mentioned a possible postponement of the review of the reform after the senatoriales of September 2020, while stating that "the Minister of Justice (Nicole Belloubet) is ready to present this month, three new texts in the Council of Ministers ".
These three laws (constitutional, organic and ordinary) are thus finally presented this Wednesday by Ms. Belloubet (for the first part) and the Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner (for the last two).
The Minister of Justice will then take part in the press briefing alongside government spokeswoman Sibeth Ndiaye.
This reform of the institutions aims to translate Emmanuel Macron's commitments to reduce the number of parliamentarians, limit mandates over time, dose of proportional to legislative, territorial differentiation and further suppression of the Court of Justice of the Republic.
She was stuck in the Assembly in July 2018, in the turmoil of the Benalla affair, then her return was considered early 2019, before a postponement in a context of tension with the Senate majority.
"We will wait for the right moment and the demonstration of the will of the Senate, which may be only after the renewal of the Upper House in 2020," the prime minister said during his general policy statement.
"The reality today is that we are close to an agreement on the draft constitutional law, but that is not yet the case on the organic bill," acknowledged Philippe, in pointing out that "the Senate has been very clear that there would be no agreement on anything if there was no agreement on everything".
Pledges in the Senate with a majority on the right: the measures on the acceleration of parliamentary procedure have been withdrawn, and the reduction in the number of parliamentarians reduced from one third to one quarter.
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