To get out of the crisis over pension reform, Socialist MP Valérie Rabault on Tuesday invited Emmanuel Macron to use Article 10 of the Constitution, which allows him, before the promulgation of the law, to propose to Parliament a new deliberation.
The Vice-President of the Assembly recalls, in a tweet, that faced with “a situation of democratic deadlock”, “the President of the Republic still has the possibility of using Article 10 of the Constitution, which would allow the ‘National Assembly to be able to vote on the pension reform’.
According to this article, “the President of the Republic promulgates the laws within fifteen days following the transmission to the Government of the law definitively adopted. He may, before the expiry of this period, ask Parliament for a new deliberation of the law or of some of its articles. This new deliberation cannot be refused”.
This procedure has already been used three times, says Valérie Rabault: in 1983, in 1985 and in 2003.
In 1983, the article was applied for a law relating to the organization of a universal exhibition, to which France was ultimately no longer a candidate, which made it possible to never promulgate a law adopted by Parliament.
In 1985, it was used for a law on New Caledonia, to replace certain articles censored by the Constitutional Council.
And, in 2003, this procedure was used for a law relating to the election of regional councilors and European parliamentarians, also to replace a censored article.
03/21/2023 11:44:50 – Paris (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
