And 10. Not at the same year, the National Assembly exploded all the accountants on the investigation commissions. No less than six are currently ongoing against only twenty between 2017 and 2022.
In a deceleration of the National Assembly, which oscillates between depression and interrogation in its usefulness with Proposals of law that often will not go anywhere AND Main texts that are very rare, these bodies offer an escape from deputies.
Commissions that “become a bit ridiculous”
“It is a difficult time for us where we have the impression that no really important issue progresses, that we are sentenced to immobility. There, I have the impression of serving something,” said a PS deputy, a member of a investigation commission with BFMTV.
“We all know that we are at the mercy of a new solution. Therefore, everyone takes advantage of the opportunity to talk about themselves, make the buzz, even if it becomes a bit ridiculous,” summarizes a macronist who leads to oneself.
Difficult to show that it is wrong. The last investigation commission that has embarked in mid -June is related to “the existing links between representatives of political movements and organizations and networks that support the terrorist action or the propagation of Islamist ideology”, supported by the president of Deputies LR Laurent Wauquiez. It is mainly directed to France Rebelde.
A very framed operation
However, on paper, the device is very framed and in no way aims to resolve accounts with its political opponents. The investigation commissions allow to “control the government’s action” or “evaluate public policies whose field goes beyond the field of jurisdiction” of a single commission in the Assembly, as specified by an order of 1958.
The National Assembly site also recalls that they are formed by parliamentarians from all groups to guarantee a certain balance. They also have extended powers, such as confiscating the documents you want to administrations or the call under the oath of the people of your choice.
It is enough to say beautiful media exhibitions for certain research commissions that, for example, have paid the luxury of receiving billionaires to a rare speech like Bernard Arnault to interrogate him about the deindustrialization of France.
Very safe auditions
Result: some hearings exceed the tens of thousands of points of view, as for the Commission for Research on Sexual Violence in Cinema. We can, for example, to see actress Sara Forestier tell how a slap received in an actor session was triggered for years, questioned by environmentalist Sandrine Rousseau and her colleague Erwan Balaanant (Modem), in charge of this parliamentary work.
The same mole for the School Violence Research Commission that has been significantly dedicated to the case of Notre-Dame-de-Bétrarram. François Bayrou’s very tense audience was particularly followed, in particular highlighting the unlikely duo between Paul Vannier’s rebel and the macronist Violette Spilball. Sometimes at the risk of deputies.
The president of the Tiktok research commission on the minors Arthur Deport (PS) and the Rupportur Laure Miller (Renaissance) often seemed overcome before the influential ones, such as Nasdas or Ad Laurent. To the point that the male influence Alex Hitchens did not hesitate to disconnect in the complete audience under oath, even if that means getting delicacy with the law.
“We are going to have a complete generation of teenagers for whom the first contact with the National Assembly, this investigation commission will have been with people who have fun of the deputies,” there is deputy Raphaël Schellenberger (not registered), president of the Commission for the Investigation Commission on the loss of independent energy of France.
“Frankly, I worry a little about the image we give to young people in politics,” said the elected official. “And then, all that for?”
“Our goal is to be a broadcast of the French to legislate on their needs. Unfortunately, I rarely have the impression that it is what is happening with the commissions of the investigation,” also shares the Renaissance deputy Charles Rodwell, relative of the Investigation Commission in the industrialization of France.
A banktok banner after his audition
In the ranks of that dedicated to violence in the world of culture, we ensure that it has already had concrete consequences.
“We have audition dozens of victims and to recognize their suffering by the deputies, this is already a great point,” said Deputy Erwan Balaanant.
This chosen modem that also has a bill to change the situation in the world of cinema, explains the current collective bargaining for a better consideration of the fight against violence.
As for the Tiktok Research Commission, it already has an influence before even presenting its conclusions. The story of the influential Alex Hitchens was eliminated a few days after his stormy audience before the deputies and a report by Minister Aurore Bergé. However, your account is already reappeared. A bill must be presented again after parliamentary work.
The symbol of the Outrau matter
But apart from the texts that are often not a great opportunity to go very far with the majority of the right Senate, few advances of the research commissions.
Some, however, had a great influence on French society, such as the one that portrays the case of Outrau and the judicial fiasco that led to the arrest of a dozen people, accused of sexual assault for several years, erroneously.
In 2006, the hearing of Judge Burgaud, the investigating judge in charge of the investigation and conclusions of the Investigation Commission, promoted the Parliament to make the presence of a lawyer before any decision on the placement in detention prior to the trial. Police custody in criminal businesses must also be filmed.
Demonetization
But for an investigation committee of this type, how many have produced recommendations that have never been applied? Despite the recommendations of the senators in the matter of Benalla, which he called to put the security system around the president, they had estimated “defective”, Emmanuel Macron continues to decide on the organization of their safety.
Several absences of personalities, however, convened by research commissions also demonstrated their political weight. Billionaire Pierre-édouard Sterin, for example, refused to appear before the Investigation Commission on the organization of the elections.
The now former secretary of Elysée Alexis Kohler did not want to come and talk to that related to the scandal of bottled waters, including the Nestlé group on behalf of “the separation of powers.”
And it is a pity if, however, he had agreed to go to the senators to answer his questions about Benalla’s issue in the summer of 2018 and that the fact of not appearing before a investigation commission can lead to a sentence of 2 years in prison and 7,500 euros fine. Problems have never been spoken at the moment.
An “without enough power” assembly
“We can reach the end of our political system with a quadiment of the government at the end and at the same time an assembly that still does not have enough power to be really influential,” regrets an official of the lower room.
With a future example? The deputies of Eric Ciotti on Tuesday called an investigation commission on the cost of immigration to France.
Source: BFM TV
