Emmanuel Macron unveils this Monday, January 10, 2025 the name of Laurent Fabius’s successor as president of the Constitutional Council. Richard Ferrand’s profile insistently returns, an eminently political choice.
The name of the future president of the Constitutional Council will be announced by Emmanuel Macron This Monday, February 10, 2025. The winner will replace Laurent Fabius, in office for nine years and previously appointed by François Hollande. The successor will be appointed until 2034, well after the end of Emmanuel Macron’s second term as head of state. Proof of the capital importance of his choice.
After several hesitations. It would seem that the president turns to Richard Ferrand. Former president of the National Assembly, he is one of the closest faithful of Emmanuel Macron. Once announced, the choice of the president must be validated by parliamentarians at the beginning of March (three fifths of parliamentarians, deputies and senators, must validate this choice), at the end of Laurent Fabius’ mandate.
But voices are already rising against the possible choice of Emmanuel Macron. Indeed, if the extreme right seems to have nothing against it, despite doubts that require to be raised, and the right remains rather silent, certain voices rise in the presidential camp. “Name it would come back to the extreme weakening of the last float in the Republic”, breathes a relative of the President, as reported The Parisian. “Putting a relative of the president means throwing suspicion on the institution. It is almost disqualifying your imperium”.
Ferrand, yes, but for what purpose?
These doubts are divided by the left, and in particular rebellious France which emits a hypothesis. What if Emmanuel Macron wanted to appoint his friend at the head of the Constitutional Council to run for a third term? An idea that seems difficult to achieve, but which LFI begins to believe: “The Constitution prohibits running for a third mandate in a row, it is reminded of LFI. But what about if the mandate is interrupted? Is it for a whole mandate?
A hypothesis recalled by the deputy Antoine Léaument (LFI) in a message published on X: “Ferrand pleaded for Macron to make a third term”, evoking here an interview of the former president of the National Assembly in Le Figaro in which he said they regretted “everything that bridles the free expression of popular sovereignty”. He then explained himself on this subject by saying that he did not want to “say that we had to change rules for 2027, but that in general, we had to allow our democracy to breathe better, in Leaving in all circumstances the last word to electricity and voters “.
Another hypothesis is possible, and perhaps more credible. Everyone has seen it, the extreme right is gaining ground in the votes of the French in each election. It would therefore be possible to see a navy Le Pen or a Jordan Bardella arrive in power in 2027. The appointment of a relative of Emmanuel Macron such as Richard Ferrand to the Constitutional Council, even though the extreme right is not hidden from Wanting to revise the Constitution would be an assurance of preventing these projects. Indeed, the extreme law demands, for example, a referendum on immigration, but this is not possible constitutionally. So, a president faithful to Emmanuel Macron would not fail to recall this in the event of the arrival of the RN at the head of the State.
In addition, a calendar coincidence makes this appointment all the more important for the national rally, as pointed out The point. One of the first subjects concerning the Constitutional Council will be about the application of ineligibility provisionally. A question that interests particularly Marine Le Pen awaiting the court decision following his trial. Richard Ferrand opposed the hardening of ineligibility sentences during the constitutional reform in 2018, which was not completed, but could change his mind if that deprives the macronie of an adversary who went Twice until the second round in the last presidential elections.