Guest of Europe 1 Sunday, Dominique Rousseau, professor of constitutional law, calls for "politically deconfining France". He considers it necessary to remedy the various "structural problems of the Fifth Republic", by giving more power to the citizens, and making the Prime Minister the real leader of the nation's policy, in place of the President. 

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"Citizens are nowhere in institutions, while they are everywhere in society." For Dominique Rousseau, professor of constitutional law, it is high time that France gives the people more power. In a column in the World published this week, he called for "deconfining France politically". Invited to Europe Sunday 1, he proposed in particular to "create, alongside the two chambers, an assembly of citizens endowed with deliberative power, and to have a president who presides and a Prime Minister who governs".

"Building on the Citizen Climate Convention"

At the microphone of Europe 1 Dominique Rousseau, calls to "build on the Citizen Convention for the Climate", and to make it a third republican assembly. "The National Assembly does not represent the citizens, it represents the nation. And the Senate represents the territories. This third assembly would be composed both of citizens drawn by lot, and of the 'living forces of the nation', of the citizens in contact with the daily reality of businesses, schools, rural communities ... These citizens are not present in the institutions. "

Dominique Rousseau also considers it necessary to remedy the "structural problem" of the Fifth Republic. "Throughout its history, there have been problems between successive presidents, and their Prime Ministers. Between De Gaulle and Pompidou, Pompidou and Chaban-Delmas, Mitterrand and Rocard, Sarkozy and Fillon, Hollande and Valls ... ", he lists. To resolve these oppositions, he considers it necessary for the Prime Minister to assume more responsibility. 

"The President of the Republic must be made a moral authority"

"We must make the President of the Republic a moral authority, which will do what the Constitution requires him to do: ensure the proper functioning of public authorities. The Prime Minister and his government will then be at the head of the nation's policy" , he suggests. 

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Another reform necessary to "politically deconfine France": the abolition of the Council of State. He explains in Le Monde : "Those who deal with administrative disputes are not judges trained by the National School of Magistrates but by the ENA. Which made Michel Debré (1912-1996) say: 'The administrative magistracy does not exist; there are only administrative officials who occupy functions of judges'. "