Close among the relatives of Emmanuel Macron, Richard Ferrand will defend this Wednesday, February 19, a criticized candidacy to preside over the Constitutional Council, before a parliamentary vote with the unusual suspense. The ballot takes place by secret bulletin, strengthening uncertainty. Especially since no one knows how many votes will be necessary. Only certainty at this stage, deputies of the LR group in the Assembly (republican right) who are members of the law committee will vote against the appointment of the former socialist.
During a group meeting on Tuesday, the deputies “unanimously decided to oppose the appointment of Richard Ferrand at the head of the Constitutional Council,” Laurent Wauquiez told the press. “It is a personality that poses an ethical problem, which poses a problem of impartiality and which poses a problem because it has no legal expertise,” he added. “The risk is that with Richard Ferrand does not happen again what we knew with Laurent Fabius, that is to say a constitutional council which no longer judges in law but with an ideological drift,” accused Laurent Wauquiez citing the immigration law “emptied of his scope”.
The Senators The Republicans also mentioned the subject this Tuesday without stopping a joint decision, we learned from their group, but several of them publicly announced that they intended to vote against the appointment proposed by the chief of the state. The decision of the LR parliamentarians, especially in the Senate, will be potentially decisive for the former president of the National Assembly, who will be auditioned Wednesday by the law commissions of the two chambers.
Sweet by several national and local mandates, and especially a presidency of the Assembly (2018-2022) like the last two bosses of the “Council”, Richard Ferrand, 62, is one of the few to have a really ear ‘Emmanuel Macron, whom he helped to enter the Elysée.
“I never play the match before kick -off”
For his candidacy to be rejected, three -fifths of the votes expressed by the two commissions would have to oppose it, a extremely rare situation in Parliament, but which has taken thickness in recent days according to the positions of the positions of parliamentarians LR.
The current president of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet called on Tuesday the parliamentarians to be based on the auditions to decide: “I can no longer make the matches before they were played. is important to see what’s going on in hearing. ” “I have already seen parliamentarians change my mind, in one direction or another, depending on the hearing. I never play the match before kick -off,” insisted the perch holder in front of the press in the National Assembly.
If Richard Ferrand should be able to count on most of the votes of the groups of the former majority supporting Emmanuel Macron (EPR-horizons-modem), the left should on the contrary voted against his appointment and this in both chambers.
The national rally, which has 16 deputies in the law committee, has not decided publicly. The entourage of President Marine Le Pen, who deplored the “drift” to appoint policies to the Constitutional Council, argues that the elected officials will decide according to Richard Ferrand’s answers to their questions on Wednesday. “We’re going to play the game,” said a member of the group.