TRUE OR FAKE. Should the Brav-M petition have been debated?

The petition asking for the dissolution of the Brav-M was rejected, while it had more than 260,000 signatures. The text has been posted on the website of the National Assembly. From 500,000 signatures, it could be debated in the hemicycle, but was blocked before. In the Law Commission, the deputies evoke the petitions deposited on their sites. They can choose to review or classify them. For this petition, the rapporteur, Éric Pouillat, deputy Renaissance, asked for the classification saying that the conduct of certain officers “cannot lead to questioning the usefulness of the Brav-M as a whole”.

The petition, a tool to “give the feeling that Parliament is listening”

Because of its large number of votes, the ranking of this petition may seem surprising. But in reality, petitions are not binding. Even having exceeded 500,000 votes, the petition on the Brav-M would not necessarily have been debated, because it is always up to elected officials to decide. “There is a possibility for the political staff to unplug something that would become inconvenient.[La pétition, NDLR] is a tool that has been put in place to give the feeling that Parliament is listening”explains Benjamin Morel, lecturer in public law at Panthéon-Assas.