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Villepin a cinder, Chirac toast? | 93 comments (93 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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It's not a convention, it's a very hard political fact that the majority in parliament can "censor" the government (motion de censure) and thus get rid of a PM it doesn't like.

The only convention Mitterrand put in place was to choose the legitimate leader of the other camp as PM, rather than imposing a less "natural" candidate of that camp to cause infighting.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Wed May 10th, 2006 at 12:31:55 PM EST
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Re: Villepin a cinder, Chirac toast? (none / 0)

In my language, if it's not written into the constitution it's a convention. Conventions take hard political facts into consideration. That's often how they come about or how they evolve.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed May 10th, 2006 at 12:37:57 PM EST
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Re: Villepin a cinder, Chirac toast? (none / 0)

I think just using the word convention without qualifying it can be confusing. There are more or less flexible conventions and this would fall in the not-very-flexible-at-all-if-you-want-to -govern conventions because of Parliament's power to vote a "motion de censure".

BTW great update diary with a wonderful photo! Thanks Afew

by Alexandra in WMass (alexandra_wmass[a|t]yahoo[d|o|t]fr) on Wed May 10th, 2006 at 12:54:45 PM EST
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Re: Villepin a cinder, Chirac toast? (none / 0)

Yes, it's not a very fluffy convention because there are hard sanctions. But I don't like to use "tradition", so I said "convention". Will happily use another term if you or someone can suggest one.

Thanks, Alexandra. The photo is courtesy of the Nouvel Obs.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed May 10th, 2006 at 01:40:38 PM EST
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Re: Villepin a cinder, Chirac toast? (none / 0)

I vote for "not very fluffy convention" :-) but I think the point came across much better in the back and forth anyway.

by Alexandra in WMass (alexandra_wmass[a|t]yahoo[d|o|t]fr) on Wed May 10th, 2006 at 03:30:25 PM EST
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