Former Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer denounces “erroneous use of dissolution”, leading to “an institutional crisis”

“There is an institutional crisis whose source is an erroneous use of dissolution”deplores Jean-Michel Blanquer, former Minister of National Education, on France Inter on Thursday, August 29, almost two months after the second round of early legislative elections. Now a professor of public law at the Panthéon-Assas University in Paris, Jean-Michel Blanquer believes that we “you cannot use the Constitution as a contract with which you strike blows against an adversary, because on the contrary it is something that must unite”.

If he considers that “nothing has been violated on a strictly legal level”he points out a form of political error. “We are paying the political price and the first to pay it is the President of the Republic”he insists.

Jean-Michel Blanquer criticizes the dissolution of the National Assembly announced on June 9 by Emmanuel Macron. “There is something a little masochistic and a little crazy about what happened.”denounces the former minister. He considers in fact that he “There was no reason to dissolve on the evening of the European elections”. He explains that he saw such a dissolution coming, but rather “after the Olympics” Or “if there had been a blockage observed in Parliament”. “There would have been an institutional logic there and the President of the Republic would undoubtedly have had many more deputies close to him”he says.

“We need to appoint a person who is able to unite the left and the right” at Matignon, pleads Jean-Michel Blanquer while Emmanuel Macron continues his consultations to find a new Prime Minister. He also judges “obvious” the fact that the head of state must “to appoint someone who is notoriously independent of him and has a history of opposition to him”.

The former Minister of National Education believes that the future head of the executive must be “either someone who comes from the left and knows how to speak to the right, or someone who comes from the right and knows how to speak to the left”. He also confides that “start from this definition”the names of former socialist Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve and the president of the Hauts-de-France region Xavier Bertrand come to mind. He also mentions the mayor of Troyes and former LR minister François Baroin. “Whoever this person is, they will have to bring the French together and at that point the structures will follow,” says Jean-Michel Blanquer, who hopes that the future Prime Minister will be able to “overcoming divisions in the general interest”.