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TRUE OR FALSE. Is France the only democracy that can do without a vote of confidence?
After the appointment of Gabriel Attal to the post of Prime Minister, Tuesday January 9, the possibility of a vote of confidence, demanded by the left, resurfaces. – (franceinfo)
After the appointment of Gabriel Attal to the post of Prime Minister, Tuesday January 9, the possibility of a vote of confidence, demanded by the left, resurfaces.
Under the Fifth Republic, Parliament had no say in the appointment of a new government. Is this a French specificity? In any case, this is what the left says, as Manon Aubry, La France Insoumise MEP, defended: “If there is no vote of confidence, we will table a motion of censure, it is Parliament which must validate the name of the Prime Minister, this is the case in all democracies“, she said on Sud Radio.
A French singularity
France would therefore be the only democracy whose Parliament does not vote on the composition of the government. According to constitutional law professors, yes, other democracies operate with a vote of Parliament which validates or not the choice of the head of government. “In Scandinavian regimes and in almost all parliamentary regimes, the government is the emanation of the first chamber. Therefore, we cannot imagine a government that could take office without having this confidence. We have here a French singularity which is expressed through History“.
France is therefore one of, if not the only democracy to do without a vote of confidence to validate the choice of a Prime Minister.
