EC which Canal took note with satisfactionYoplait is the third if the submitted offer5 million units sold last year of which 2Resume meets their desire to speak to their accountIt is my duty it is the general interestThis old term seems to become barely audibleOther voices could be heard yesterday to call for government interventionBut in his eyes the latter is manageableAnd sewn together all of this is a comedyFor the rest most of the building remained openThe latest political crisis in which Dominique de Villepin plunged France will have found its epilogue in the poor "I passed the CPE but I does not apply to" French President Jacques Chirac. It did exacerbate a diffuse sense of illegitimacy. The first character of the State is directly responsible for. The irreparable negative was to occur on May 29, 2005. The evening of that day, very many French who could not help but think of the only decision that could have them be announced at the top for their restoring confidence in their institutions. By clinging to his duties after the referendum on Europe by him and lost by him, the host of the Elysée prepared an end of term tumultuous or suffocated, or both at a time. If he is able to keep to the end.
Today enjoying the character hopelessly fictional and artificial to the institutional system of the Fifth Republic. Although public opinion and almost all of the ruling elites think the contrary, this is not today that date its fragility. It is consubstantial to its origin. It is the personal nature of the power which is the key, namely the presidential power.
For example, brings back us to the heart of the tragedy that lived the France, I refer to section 8 of our present Constitution. It is written in such a way that the average citizen but also the specialized lawyer concluded that the head of State has the right to appoint who he wants such is one of the marks of his personal power to lead the Government. But it is also stipulated by elsewhere (sections 20 and 49) that the Government is accountable to Parliament. This is the great principle dropped to distract the gallery by early constituents collected by General de Gaulle. He established the reassuring continuity of the Constitution of 1958 with the Republican tradition. However, cannot be not the approach, should be primarily that the text would refrain from specifically make the effective appointment of the Prime Minister in a parliamentary vote. He has the fullness of its functions as soon as he was appointed by the President.
As to the responsibility of the head of Government to the Parliament, it is according to the procedures provided for in articles 49 and 50. Or article 49 in his famous paragraph 3 a purpose to the members of the majority to be: vote the text of the Government en masse and without discussion or even take responsibility for the overthrow. Dominique de Villepin had recourse to this process on February 9 to put in force the Bill on equality of opportunity in which appeared his PBS. It was not necessary even doubt.
Of course, the rule of the Government (Executive power) on the legislative body or even some customization of political power are not specific to the scheme French (one vote for the CDU because it is the Party of Angela Merkel, for Labour support Blair, etc.). The two phenomena are correct in most Western democracies. This is even particularly the case in those qualifying as parliamentarians as political life is not split between a multitude of small parties. The rule is that the head of the political party which won the elections automatically becomes the head of the Government. It does than to express a certain democratic logic. The problem is not to diminish the status of the Queen of England by dictating de facto the choice of a Prime Minister! Similarly, the right of dissolution of the National Assembly to the Chairman of the French Republic to ensure the supremacy of the Elysee Palace on the Palais Bourbon. Nothing to do with the same Faculty given to British Prime Minister. A to determine the best time to re-elect members of his own majority.
The fundamental flaw of the Constitution of the Fifth Republic is that it can operate to establishing links of subordination humiliating or, at best, nature feudal within the institutional apparatus. The influence exercised by the President on the State assumes that it "has" personally the Prime Minister. The Constitution does not formally recognize him the right to remove, but how is it applied In turn, Jean-Pierre Raffarin handed the field his letter of resignation when the honcho the requested him!
Is no presidential politics if his head is not without a share of the party that bears his name. The Party of the President, pardi! This last condition is cruelly lacking Chirac since Nicolas Sarkozy took the leadership of the UMP. Do a dream: this new configuration should, if the electorate wanted to democratize and morality our political system, the push in 2007 to elect the presidential candidate or the Socialist candidate and secure the victory of the UMP, and therefore of its leader, in the legislative elections that will follow as soon as! And too bad for the convention held April 5 by the latter Party. Key stakeholders are advocated, although they claim the contrary, a system for the US: a strengthened Presidency and a Parliament held in counter-power. Unmanageable in a centralized country.
Those who believe that "the only acceptable evolution by the French would be a renovated presidentialism" (Edouard Balladur) are cheap artwork of public safety which would no longer put on a single head what it is and honours (and the Magisterium accompanying) and exercise (but not the responsibility) of effective power (as is the case today). Among the republics of our Europe who elect their President by universal suffrage, there is two which are passed by a phase where the head of State was also the essence of power: the Portugal under the Presidency of the General Eanes (1976-1986) and the Finland under the Presidency of Urho Kekkonen (1956-1981). They in later returned to the responsible exercise of power by the Prime Minister. O stupor for Nordic and Lutheran democracy! President Kekkonen had pushed far personal power practice and style. He was a main focal point and influential who attended its diplomatic action in Moscow. She received the journalists. She told me how Khrushchev claimed to treat the Finland: as her "capitalist spoiled child!"
