Interviewed by Jacques Donot, Michel Debré, one of the authors of the constitution of the Fifth Republic, reads Article 5 around the exceptional powers of the President of the Republic and explains them.
Interview with Michel Debré, one of the authors of the constitution of the Fifth Republic. It evokes the role of the President of the Republic in case of conflict between the parliament and the government. The president can dissolve the parliament and bring the people to vote: "the only sovereignty is the people".
Didactic subject devoted to the relationship between the executive and the National Assembly. The 1958 Constitution allows the President of the Republic to dissolve the National Assembly under certain conditions, except in the case of an interim presidency and the year following a dissolution. Apart from the legislative role of the deputies, the National Assembly has a mission of control of the government which is expressed through two procedures: questions to the government and the putting into play of the political responsibility which is expressed by the motion of censure, on the initiative of members of Parliament, and on the issue of confidence, on the initiative of the Prime Minister. The subject consists only of illustration images taken mostly inside the Palais Bourbon.
During a debate on the institutions of the Fifth Republic between Michel Debré and François Mitterrand, the latter recalls what should be the role of the Prime Minister as defined by the Constitution while according to him it is currently "that the executor of decisions, which for the conduct of the affairs of the nation, are taken at the Elysee".
Interrogé par Christophe Barbier et Denis Jeambar, Guy Carcassonne, juriste spécialiste de droit constitutionnel, évoque les pouvoirs, uniques par leur principe, dans les grandes démocraties modernes, attribués en France, selon la Constitution de 1958, au président de la République.
Before Jacques Chirac, President of the Republic, officially announced his intention to reform the length of the presidential term, Retrospective on the position of successive presidents of the Fifth Republic in relation to this sea snake of French political life that has long been the reduction of the presidential term to five years.
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