- The Prime Minister will present Tuesday, at 3 p.m., the deconfinement plan to the National Assembly.
- This speech will be followed by a vote, with 75 deputies back in the hemicycle, to respect the sanitary distances.
- This vote does not engage the responsibility of the government.
Funny return to the Assembly. While Parliament has been sitting in a “restricted format” since the start of confinement six weeks ago, more members will be able to return to the Palais-Bourbon hemicycle on Tuesday for an unprecedented vote on deconfinement, set for May 11 by the government. At 3 p.m., the government must present its plan to lift the containment established to curb the coronavirus epidemic. Here are the details of this debate.
Who can be present in the Hemicycle?
To limit the risk of contamination, only 75 of the 577 deputies will be able to attend Edouard Philippe's speech and then vote. Each group may send a maximum number of parliamentarians proportional to its weight on the benches of the Assembly.
For La République en Marche, it will be 40.5 for its ally MoDem and 4 for the UDI-Agir. In the ranks of the opposition, The Republicans may be 13, the Socialists 4, while the Communist groups, rebellious, and Liberties and Territories, will each have 3 elected.
As for the non-attached deputies, not numerous enough to form a group, among which are notably the elected members of the National Rally, they can only send one of them.
What will MPs vote on?
They will have to react to the Prime Minister's speech which will focus on "the national strategy of the deconfinement plan", according to Matignon. Edouard Philippe "will present the general architecture" of the deconfinement, specifies the majority, while the precise modalities will be established locally, with the prefects and the mayors. The digital tracing application project, StopCovid, will also be discussed, but the vote will not be limited to this controversial tool.
Among the questions that remain, and on which the government is eagerly awaited, the compulsory nature of wearing a mask in certain public places, the screening policy, the reopening of shops and business offices, and the very thorny question of schools. .
How will they vote?
After the speech of Edouard Philippe, the deputies will be able to express themselves, according to the weight of their party. The speeches will be linked for 2:30, with 40 minutes for LREM, 40 for LR, 15 for the MoDem and the socialists, then 10 for the UDI-Agir, Liberties and Territories, LFI and the communists. An unregistered Member may then make a 5-minute speech.
Then the government will have a response time, before the vote at the end of the afternoon. In an exceptional situation, an unprecedented process: the representatives of the political groups will carry the votes of the members of their group. However, any deputy may signal if he adopts a position different from his group, for example if he wants to abstain, or vote against it, while his group's position is to approve the government's speech. The only exception: unregistered deputies will all be able to vote remotely.
With what consequences?
This vote does not engage the responsibility of the government, because it is organized in application of article 50-1 of the Constitution. It is therefore symbolic.
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