The true from the false. Is the National Assembly closed, as Jordan Bardella claims?

“The National Assembly is closed, we have been deploring it for a month now. The parliamentary sessions resume, first the committees this week, and then the assembly at the beginning of October”, denounced Jordan Bardella, the acting president of the National Rally, questioned Monday, September 12 on RTL.

There is truth and falsehood in what Jordan Bardella says. False first when he says that the National Assembly is closed. Jordan Bardella exaggerates on this point because the Palais Bourbon is not double-locked, the deputies can indeed go there. What is not yet open, however, is the hemicycle. The famous public sessions, it is true, have not yet started. On this point, Jordan Bardella is right, we will have to wait until October 3.

But it is not because the deputies are not in the hemicycle that they are not working. First they are in their constituency on the ground, but also indeed in the Assembly in Paris.

If we look at the agenda of the Assembly, about fifteen meetings were already taking place every day from last week on the initiative of deputies. Marine le Pen herself, for example, had a meeting scheduled at the Assembly last Monday at 10 a.m.

In addition, Jordan Bardella says it, from this Tuesday, September 13, committee work resumes. As shown once again by the agenda of the Assembly, several works are planned. Hearings are notably scheduled from 3 p.m. as part of the flash mission on superprofits.

It is true, however, that we had become accustomed to seeing deputies in the hemicycle from the month of September. Over the past twenty years, this has even become almost systematic. Indeed, to deal with the mass of texts to be studied, extraordinary sessions were organized in September or July, or even both. Except that’s not supposed to be the norm.

The Constitution (Articles 28 and 29) provides that Parliament meets for nine months, from October to June, and allows the Prime Minister or a majority of the members of the assembly to convene an extraordinary session. Last year, for example, two extraordinary sessions were held in September. More recently, another session was held last July when the Purchasing Power Protection Bill was passed.

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