The elections are over. The assembly is finally composed. The presidential majority is installed, along with its opposition. It is now a matter of making this institution function.
The National Assembly is the place of popular sovereignty (the deputies represent… the Nation). It is irreplaceable. Can it also become the recording chamber for presidential and governmental decisions?
The election of 75% new deputies might be an opportunity “to set the record straight.” It is time to rethink the role of Parliament.
With successive victories in the presidential and legislative elections, the En Marche party holds all the cards. Their obsession: to do the opposite of the Socialist Party and the Republicans.
Parties that, since Sunday, have been observing the damage. On the side of the winners, the supporters of En Marche are still struggling. They seem still dazed.
The question everyone is asking: How to build a party that does not end up in the political wanderings of the Republicans and the Socialist Party? How to establish a Parliament that is both effective and connected to real life, especially when the majority is overwhelming?
Every word is measured. “Humility,” “proximity,” “listening,” they say, careful not to commit the blunder of arrogance that would be costly.
A passenger during Hollande’s five-year term, Emmanuel Macron had long reflected on the necessity of restoring the president’s original “verticality.”
More generally, the Macronists intend to articulate “verticality” and “horizontality”: a president who presides and a prime minister who governs.
