In France, it smells like holidays for MPs. Parliamentary work will stop at the National Assembly on August 7, after a particularly intense month of July which marked bodies and minds. The debates at the Palais Bourbon, particularly around the bill on purchasing power, were fierce and often lasted until very late at night. A particularly harsh baptism of fire for the new deputies.
Debates until 6 a.m., sessions that sometimes follow one another 7 days a week… Parliamentary work began at top speed, at a difficult pace to follow according to Antoine Léaument, deputy La France Insoumise of the Essonne, at the microphone of Gregory Genevrierpolitical service.
” It’s not normal for the human body to be in a hemicycle for 15 hours in a row, talking, listening to people, in weeks when we’ve already finished at 2 a.m…. that’s time amplitudes which are implausible. »
National Rally deputy Thomas Ménagé agrees, and insists on the sequence of campaigns. ” We chained several months of campaigning for the presidential election, then also a campaign for departmental elections and regional elections. “, then the young deputy of Loiret tempers, “ after… at 30 we have the niaque and I think we are not to be pitied when we know that there are French people who work, who get up early. »
The night sessions affect the quality of the debates, denounces the centrist Estelle Youssouffa. ” Nerves are on edge, it feeds a climate where outbursts of voices, the staging of skilfully political anger, are easier. “The sign that it is time to rethink the functioning of legislative work for Charles Sitzenstuhl, elected from Bas-Rhin and member of the presidential majority. ” There is now an urgent need to reflect at government level (on how to) rationalize this parliamentary work. »
Exceptionally, after an extraordinary session in July, Parliament will not be convened for an extraordinary session in September. The resumption of the debates in the hemicycles of the Assembly and the Senate is scheduled for October 3, which gives the deputies some time to breathe, go to the field and prepare to tackle the burning reform of unemployment benefit.