It is new. The request against the Duplumba law accumulates this Sunday, July 20 at noon at more than 800,000 signatures. This law “is a scientific, ethical, environmental and health aberration,” denounces the petition.
Adopted on July 8 in Parliament, the Law of Duflo establishes in particular the reintroduction in a danger and under conditions of acetamiprid, pesticide of the family of neonicotinoids, prohibited in France, but authorized in Europe.
On Saturday, the petition, launched by a 23 -year -old student, reached the goal that she had dedicated 500,000 signatures, of unheard of the National Assembly site. However, if environmentalists and leftist parties have rejoiced this madness, this decisive course does not mean that the law is repealed.
Because the accumulation of signatures can be symbolic, it does not become legally binding for her. So how is the course of a request with the assembly placed?
• More visibility of 100,000 signatures
The assembly site details the process: first, a citizen can put a request online. If it reaches 100,000 signatures, it will be published at the site of the National Assembly, which allows you to acquire more visibility.
The petition can be examined or classified by a National Assembly commission. It is the rapporteur who decides it. In the event that a petition is classified, it closes in the firm. In the event that it is examined, a debate on the request in the Committee (and not in the public session) is organized.
The petition against the DUPLO law reached 100,000 signatures in just a few days.
• The decisive threshold of 500,000 signatures opens the way to a debate
The petition still counted 200,000 signatures on Friday and crossed the limit of 500,000 the next day on Saturday, July 19. The text published by Eléonore Pattery aroused an unprecedented fashion, abundantly transmitted on social networks by personalities such as actor Pierre Niney and leftist deputies.
When a petition exceeds the signatures of half a million, as is the case here, the Conference of Presidents of the National Assembly can (and should not) decide to organize a debate in the public session (that is, before all the deputies).
In addition, the signatories of the petition must be domiciled in 30 departments or communities from abroad at least. But be careful with the debate will focus on the request, and not on the law itself.
Therefore, the Conference of Presidents of the National Assembly (composed of the president of the Assembly and the presidents of the parliamentary groups) will meet at the beginning of the school year to decide if a debate must be carried out in a public session. It would be the first time because no request in the hemicycle has been discussed in the history of the fifth Republic.
In any case, the law will not be examined again in the merits and even less repealed. In fact, one law can only be repealed by another law, under the principle according to which administrative laws or regulations can only be repealed by a text of the same value (one law by a law, a decree by a decree, etc.).
• Soon a symbolic million or a possibility of repeal?
As we have understood, this request is mostly symbolic and allows its signatories to press political leaders. This explains why environmental activists continue to ask citizens to sign it to reach a million, even if the objective of 500,000 signatures are achieved.
But then a repeal of the law is impossible? The petition states in particular “the democratic review of the conditions under which the Duplom Law” has been adopted. In Parliament, he had experienced an expedited trip with a preliminary rejection motion, deposited by his own rapporteur Julien Dive (LR) but favorable to the text. The deputy had justified him denouncing the “obstruction” of the left, which had deposited several thousand amendments.
The absence of real debate in the hemicycle is one of the arguments presented by the leftist deputies who presented an appeal on July 11 before the Constitutional Council, waiting for their censorship by procedural default, which could avoid its promulgation.
The ecological deputy of Deux-Sèvres Delphine Batho asks Emmanuel Macron not to promulgate the law. “The President of the Republic had said that he was not happy with a series of decreases on ecology, he has the opportunity to join specific acts,” he said.
Source: BFM TV
