Parliament, where its work has been paralyzed since December 5, is preparing to go on vacation for three weeks. Three more weeks without anything happening. Three weeks of vacuum that will be added to the 130 days of electric holidays registered in 2024. More than four months, do you realize? And it continues.
We are on Christmas Eve without a budget, something that has never happened in half a century. Without a government, although the previous one resigned two weeks ago. And without the possibility of releasing credits or approving an emergency law for the reconstruction of Mayotte, in the face of what the prime minister described yesterday as “the most serious natural catastrophe in the history of France for several centuries.” And we tell ourselves we can still wait three weeks before work resumes. Admit that there are reasons to be surprised.
Whose fault is it?
Of course, deputies will continue to work in the electoral districts. It is not about having a populist speech and saying that deputies are lazy people who pay to do nothing with our taxes. Most of them work hard throughout the year and will continue to do so in the constituencies during the year-end holidays.
If they have not met since December 5, it is because there is no longer a government. That’s what’s dysfunctional. Who is to blame then? To the government or to those who overthrew it?
The architects of the chaos, whose Assembly may not have fully appreciated the consequences of their actions, inevitably bear some of the responsibility. But this instability also comes from the President of the Republic, whose article 5 of the Constitution stipulates that he will “ensure respect for the Constitution” and “guarantee, through his arbitration, the regular functioning of the public powers, as well as the continuity of the public functions”. State”.
The Constitution? He pushed her to the limit and has been happily twisting her for a year.
The regular functioning of public authorities? The continuity of the State? The least we can say is that they have not been insured for a year now.
Pick up the pace
This institutional instability has direct economic, social and today even humanitarian consequences. Serious consequences. So if we could speed up the pace a little and not wait until January 14 for our dear deputies to find their way back to the National Assembly and for François Bayrou to reveal his plans in his general policy speech.
Its mission is clear: reduce the deficit to 5% of GDP in 2025 without raising taxes too much and pass the finance law as quickly as possible. It’s simple! For this, there is no need for general policy speeches or waiting until January 14. We need to get to work. Right away!
Source: BFM TV
