The impeachment procedure must be filed by one tenth of the deputies, then be voted on by two thirds of the Assembly.
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Is Emmanuel Macron’s departure possible? A motion for a resolution to initiate impeachment proceedings against the President of the Republic “was sent today to parliamentarians for co-signatures”said MP Mathilde Panot, president of the La France Insoumise group in the Assembly, on Saturday August 31. Emmanuel Macron “refuses to submit to the people’s vote, so we must dismiss him”she adds on the social network X.
In this text, the deputies of La France Insoumise accuse the President of the Republic of “serious breach” to his “duty” by refusing to accede to the request of the New Popular Front to appoint Lucie Castets to Matignon and call on parliamentarians to support this approach for “defend democracy”.
The impeachment procedure provided for in Article 68 of the Constitution, long and difficult to achieve, must be submitted by one tenth of the deputies, or 58 deputies. “We have this number of deputies in our midst,” assured Mathilde Panot on franceinfo. It must then be voted on by two-thirds parliamentarians gathered in High Court.
“The Assembly, like the Senate, can and must defend democracy against the authoritarian temptation of the President of the Republic, which we do not know where it would stop.”however, the rebellious deputies call for in their proposed resolution.
