The National Assembly in search of a majority, an unprecedented situation?

Asked about the possible parallels between the current situation in the National Assembly and that of 1988, the lawyer specializing in constitutional law Christophe Fabre explains that the current situation “presents links with that of 1988“, where François Mitterrand had only been able to obtain a relative majority in the Assembly, but specifies that”at the time, Michel Rocard lacked 14 seats. Today, 44 are missing“, he notes. The Socialist Prime Minister had also been able to forge a fairly natural alliance with the Communists, who held 25 seats.

While Emmanuel Macron considered that the absence of an absolute majority was commonplace in the rest of Europe, the lawyer recalls that “Germany and Italy are pure parliamentary regimes. The Fifth Republic was conceived in 1958 as a parliamentary regime, it gradually moved away from it to become a semi-presidential regime“The problem therefore lies in particular in the absence of a parliamentary culture in France, he believes.