The Majority-Opposition Pairs
Translated from the French by Cadenza Academic Translations
Pages 43 to 55
Cite this article
- BERGOUGNOUS, Georges,
- Bergougnous, Georges.
- Bergougnous, G.
https://doi.org/10.3917/pouv.146.0043
Cite this article
- Bergougnous, G.
- Bergougnous, Georges.
- BERGOUGNOUS, Georges,
https://doi.org/10.3917/pouv.146.0043
Notes
-
[1]
Michel Debré became the first Prime Minister of the Fifth Republic.
-
[2]
CC, 2006-537 DC, June 22, 2006.
-
[3]
CC, 2013-664 DC, February 28, 2013.
-
[4]
CC, 95-370 DC, December 30, 1995.
-
[5]
Comité de réflexion et de proposition sur la modernisation et le rééquilibrage des institutions de la Ve République, Une Ve République plus démocratique (Paris: La Documentation française, 2007), 65.
-
[6]
Warsmann, Jean-Luc, Assemblée nationale, report 892, thirteenth term, May 15, 2008, 57.
-
[7]
Avril, Pierre, “L’introuvable contrôle parlementaire (suite)” Jus Politicum 3 (2009): 2.
-
[8]
CC, 59-2 DC, June 24, 1959. The jurisprudence has remained unchanged since that decision.
-
[9]
Avril, “L’introuvable contrôle,” 2.
-
[10]
Dosière, René in Assemblée nationale, Journal officiel. Compte rendu intégral, première séance du 25 janvier 2011, 469.
-
[11]
Ibid.
-
[12]
Avril, “L’introuvable contrôle,” 6.
-
[13]
Le Divellec, Armel, “Des effets du contrôle parlementaire” Pouvoirs 134 (2010): 130, available on http://www.revue-pouvoirs.fr.
-
[14]
Avril, “L’introuvable contrôle,” 6.
-
[15]
Minutes of the revision of the commission of laws n° 2, July 4, 2012, http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr.
-
[16]
It is in this sense that the report of the commission “Institutions of the Jurists Club” (March 2012) – of which, by the way, Jean-Jacques Urvoas was a member – must be understood.
-
[17]
Mr. Pierre Moscovici thus wrote, in his foreword to the report of the investigative commission he presided on the circumstances of the liberation of the Bulgarian nurses and doctor detained in Lybia: “The UMP and Nouveau Centre group decided – in my view without any real justification – not to hear Ms. Cécilia Sarkozy, and her hearing will remain a missing piece of the puzzle, a missing like in the unfolding of the dense and sometimes chaotic events that lead to the liberation of the Bulgarian medical personnel (Assemblée nationale, report 622, thirteenth term, January 22, 2008, 7).
-
[18]
Pimentel, Carlos-Miguel, “L’opposition, ou le procès symbolique du pouvoir” Pouvoirs 108 (2004): 45-62, available on http://www.revue-pouvoirs.fr.
-
[19]
Avril, Pierre, “La séparation des pouvoirs est-elle un concept opératoire?” (paper presented at the 7th French Convention on Constitutional Law, AFDC, Paris, September 25-27, 2008).
The constitutional recognition of the opposition goes hand in hand with the assertion of the monitoring and evaluation function of the Parliament. They both contribute to the renewal and revalorisation of the legislative branch, which was the main goal of the 2008 constitutional revision. Among the instruments chosen to reach this goal was the setting up of teams with equal political rights, in order to empower the opposition and normalize its relationship with the majority. This method calls for reflection regarding its limitation to monitoring tasks and the way it enshrines – and, therefore, legitimizes – a bipartisan political reality.