Does Macron plan to dissolve the Assembly to penalize Zemmour?

• On Twitter, a user is worried about Emmanuel Macron's wish to dissolve the National Assembly - if he is re-elected.

• This would allow him to reduce the election campaign time for the next legislative elections and thus destabilize the opposition.

• However, Emmanuel Macron never mentioned this measure and it is only an analysis of the media "L'Opinion", in a context described as "unpublished".

The first round of the presidential election is approaching and with it its share of questions about democracy.

Monday, an activist of the candidate of Eric Zemmour questioned in particular the wish that the current President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron would have to dissolve the National Assembly, if he were to be re-elected.

“Are you aware that Emmanuel Macron wants to dissolve the National Assembly just after the elections, if he is re-elected to have the majority by putting the legislative elections in May?

Like that, Zemmour would not have time to present an elected official in each region, ”wonders the Internet user.

Are you aware that @EmmanuelMacron wants to dissolve the National Assembly just after the elections, if he is re-elected to have the majority by putting the legislative elections in May so that Z would not have time to present an elected representative in each region

— LAURENT Carole 💙🤍❤Z0ZZ (@carocalou86) March 7, 2022

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Did Emmanuel Macron really consider this dissolution?

Is such a measure possible the day after an election? 

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Where does this assertion come from about a potential wish of Emmanuel Macron to dissolve the National Assembly – if he is re-elected?

It was our colleagues from the newspaper

who first considered it, in November, given the calendar of the 2022 elections. Indeed, this year, the period between the presidential and the legislative elections goes from five at eight weeks, which

describes as "unprecedented".

A few days later, the information is included in an editorial by Olivier Bost on RTL titled "Emmanuel Macron is thinking of dissolving the National Assembly".

The political columnist recalls here that if the dates of the presidential election have been brought forward – so as not to fall on public holidays in early May – the dates of the legislative elections remain unchanged.

“There will therefore be almost two full months of campaigning for future deputies, and that is precisely what Emmanuel Macron's strategists want to avoid.

With a long campaign, if Emmanuel Macron is re-elected, it will be harder for him to obtain a majority”, underlines Olivier Bost.

But today, nothing is done and the assertions of the newspaper

remain only hypothetical.

Emmanuel Macron has not publicly considered such a measure.

This strategy could, however, be used to shorten the opposition's campaign time.

However, it is important to ask whether a newly elected president can dissolve the National Assembly.

checked and this right is provided for in Article 12 of the Constitution.

"The President of the Republic may, after consultation with the Prime Minister and the Presidents of the Assemblies, pronounce the dissolution of the National Assembly", it is indicated.

In fact, dissolution is only impossible in three cases: when the exceptional powers are exercised by the president [which happened only once in 1961], when the president of the Senate exercises the interim President of the Republic [if he dies, for example] or if the Assembly has already been dissolved in the same year.

Thus, it is quite possible for any newly elected president to dissolve the National Assembly.

A measure taken by Mitterrand

In the history of the Fifth Republic, three presidents have already dissolved the National Assembly: Charles de Gaulle, François Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac.

But it is the case of the socialist president who interests us the most here, because the dissolutions occurred just after his election.

In 1981, when he had just come to power, François Mitterrand used it to avoid cohabitation with a majority outside his political side.

A measure he had already considered during a televised debate on May 5, 1981 against Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.

“I intend to dissolve and I intend to hold elections before July 1st.

If there were a major argument against that, my decision would stand anyway, by which I mean that I would not be able to keep this House, and the problem for me would be to have a majority , because we cannot carry out another policy without another majority”, then explained the future president.

Same scenario during his re-election.

In 1988, François Mitterrand again decided to dissolve the lower house of Parliament to recover the majority, lost during the 1986 legislative elections. efforts, he did not consider himself in a position to muster the solid and stable parliamentary majority which any government needs to bring its action to a successful conclusion […].

I therefore have a duty to draw the consequences.

In accordance with article 12 of the Constitution, and after having carried out the consultations that it provides for, I signed here a few moments the decree pronouncing the dissolution of the National Assembly”, maintained François Mitterrand, during a televised address. , May 14, 1988.

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