Minister and MP, is it possible? Article 23 of the Constitution is clear, states Jean-Philippe Derosier, professor of constitutional law at the University of Lille: “The functions of member of the government are incompatible with the exercise of any parliamentary mandate.” And the academic from the North underlines that in June 2022, Yaël Braun-Pivet, elected MP, gave up her ministerial portfolio (Overseas) before her return to the National Assembly.
Seventeen deputies in the ministries
Seventeen ministers have just been (re)elected as deputies, including the first of them, Gabriel Attal. All have since been kept in their ministry by Emmanuel Macron who refused the resignation of the head of the…
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