why the regulatory closed session of the CMP is contested by Nupes

The regulations of the National Assembly provide that the debates of this parliamentary body are held outside the presence of the public. Nupes is calling for an evolution of this rule.

Monday, December 18, at 5 p.m., the fourteen deputies and senators of the joint committee (CMP) will meet with one objective: to find a compromise on the immigration bill, after the adoption by the National Assembly of a motion prior rejection.

And if this commission will meet behind closed doors, as required by the regulations of the National Assembly, this is not to everyone’s taste, and in particular the Nupes deputies. Rebels and environmentalists demand that the debates be public.

If LFI elected officials make this request, it is because they fear “manipulations” and the “shenanigans“, between the majority and the right, largely in the majority in this CMP. “There may be pressure beforehand. During the joint joint committee, it could appear and we could see how the senators and deputies position themselves, and how the rapporteurs present the text that we will have to examine on Monday”argues Andrée Taurynia, MP for Loire, who is one of the three elected left-wing members of this commission.

“The regulations are meant to be modified”

Public debates are impossible and against the rules, replies the presidency of the National Assembly. We need to change the rules, replies environmentalist Julien Bayou. “The regulations are meant to be modifiedpleads the deputy from Paris. There was a time when it was very complicated to lift parliamentary immunity. Today, it’s easier and that’s normal.”

“The regulations must evolve in the direction of transparency.”

Julien Bayou, deputy Les Ecologists de Paris

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At the PS, Boris Vallaud is also in favor of lifting the closed session for the CMP, in general, “in the name of transparency”. In March, during another very explosive joint committee, that on pension reform, the elected representatives of Nupes had already called for a public debate, without obtaining it. The deputies Sandrine Rousseau (Les Ecologistes) and Hadrien Clouet (LFI) then broadcast images on social networks, before being sanctioned.