Towards a political drift of parliamentary commissions of inquiry?
On May 18, the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, expressed concern about the exploitation of parliamentary commissions of inquiry, "to make them strictly political objects." What is the situation?
François Bayrou, Élisabeth Borne, Bruno Le Maire… In recent months, many prominent political figures have been questioned before parliamentary commissions of inquiry. The President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, recently expressed concern about this .
With these commissions, deputies and senators have the power to control the government's actions, or to examine matters deemed to be of general interest.
In recent years, committee meetings have given rise to high-profile events, broadcast live on television. There have been far more of them in the Assembly since Emmanuel Macron came to power (53) than under François Hollande (17) or Nicolas Sarkozy (7), a trend also found in the Senate.
But the proliferation of committees is primarily due to the introduction of a constitutional change in 2008, the creation of a right of drawing that allows " each opposition or minority group to create a committee of inquiry ," explains Dorothée Reignier, lecturer in public law at Sciences Po Lille. The proliferation of committees goes hand in hand with the proliferation of groups: 11 today in the Assembly.
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Jean Garrigues, Historian, President of the Parliamentary History Committee, Member of the "Enlightenment in the Digital Age" Commission
Dorothée Reignier, Lecturer in public law at Science Po Lille, Center for Administrative, Political and Social Studies and Research, University of Lille (CERAPS)
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