Lionel Jospin joined on Tuesday the Constitutional Council, one of the most prestigious institutions of the Republic. His appointment was gazetted in the morning, shortly before his swearing in at the Elysee to 18h in the presence of Francois Hollande.
During the ceremony in camera, the Head of State asked the new judge solemnly swear on the Constitution he will fulfill his duties “impartially” keep “the secret proceedings and votes, “will take” no public position. ”
Lionel Jospin, former Prime Minister and First Secretary of the PS, minister and MP, was selected by Claude Bartolone, President of the National Assembly. Choice validated on December 17 by the Committee on Laws. And profile convinces beyond the boundaries of the socialist family.
He takes the seat of Jacques Barrot
The UMP rapporteur of the Committee on Laws, William Larrivé, had been flattering formulas, crediting Lionel Jospin “three outstanding qualities: the experience of the state, the personal impartiality, which is a virtue, and probably a fidelity to traditional principles of our Republic. ” The co-chair of EELV group in the National Assembly, François de Rugy, has meanwhile praised the “right choice incontestable” Claude Bartolone.
The mandate of Lionel Jospin is four years and two months since it replaces the centrist Jacques Barrot, appointed in 2010 and died suddenly on December 3rd. The one who had trouble with the High Council when he was at Matignon will be the only former head of government among its active members. At 77, he became the dean at the same time (excluding the former president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing).
The mission of the Elders: judging the compliance of laws with the Constitution, in their quiver with a lightning weapon, censorship. Their role has increased with the reform of July 2008 through QPC (priority question of constitutionality) they can now be typed texts of the past and not just the new laws.
A constitutional expert was convinced that Lionel Jospin bring much by its height and its views seriously applied, shown particularly in the written replies to MPs. He said, for example, his opposition to a move to the US Supreme Court. Curiously, in May 2012, he answered the suit Sage was not interested. “I do not place myself at all from the perspective of this kind,” he said on France Inter.
The future president of this institution?
Why Lionel Jospin, who also announced his withdrawal from politics after his defeat in the 2002 presidential election, he changed his mind and reconsidered this place? His entry to the Constitutional Council is like a “political maneuver,” said Europe 1. It is indeed not without possible consequence in an institution whose president – Jean-Louis Debré, faithful Jacques Chirac, who had designated at the end of his five years – will be renewed in March 2016.
For his stature, Lionel Jospin would indeed seem destined to succeed him. In this case, he should leave the beautiful office of the president of the Royal Palace from 2019 and not in 2025, normal expiry of any person appointed member and chairman in 2016. Where a risk to the left of losing a key position if Elysee would change hands in the meantime … Computer to which the name of Olivier Schrameck was delivered and also that of Laurent Fabius, the eternal enemy brother.
With the arrival of Lionel Jospin, the Board has 4 members appointed by the left and five to the right. But among them, President Nicolas Sarkozy chose in 2010 the very Mitterrand Michel Charasse. The High Council has five “technicians” (from the Council of State, the court of auditors …) and four “political”. Unchanged relationship Jacques Barrot as being a “political”.
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