14
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] gaael@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

Vote of misconfidence only gets rid of the government (PM and the other ministers), the president stays in place. Macron already theatened the parliament of dissolution (meaning everyone goes home and we do a parliament election) in case of succesful vite of misconfidence. It doesn't make it impossible but it makes it less likely.

[-] CrimsonOnoscopy@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds pretty authoritarian if you ask me

[-] gaael@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Yep. Our current constitution was designed by De Gaulle, who was military and not too big on parliament power. From the official presidential website "Élysée" (name of the palace where presidential powet resides in France) : While it is based on the Constitution of 1946, the 1958 Constitution is different, as its purpose was to strengthen executive power and stabilize the government, making it more difficult for the Assembly to overthrow.

[-] CrimsonOnoscopy@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Sounds like it's time to destabilize the government and overthrow the presidency.

Maybe the Assembly can't do it, but the people sure could.

this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
14 points (100.0% liked)

World News

22057 readers
44 users here now

Breaking news from around the world.

News that is American but has an international facet may also be posted here.


Guidelines for submissions:

These guidelines will be enforced on a know-it-when-I-see-it basis.


For US News, see the US News community.


This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS