French Prime Minister

In France , the Prime Minister is the chief of the Gouvernement under the V {{E}} République. This function succeeds that of President of the Council of the two preceding Constitutions, with different capacities. It resides at the Hôtel Matignon, located at Paris, Rue of Game preserve, in the VII {{E}} district. This is why the services of the Prime Minister are often called “Matignon” by metonymy.

The Prime Minister in Ve République

In the text of the constitution

The Constitution of October 4th, 1958, indicates to article 8 that the Prime Minister is named by the President of the Republic without counter-signature. This last can put an end to its functions only by presentation of the resignation of the Government. Article 21 states that the Prime Minister directs the action of the Government, is responsible for National defense, ensures of the execution of the laws. He proposes the nomination and the revocation of the ministers. In addition, the Prime Minister, on delegation of the President of the Republic, can name with civil and military employment, and can chair the Council of Ministers exceptionally. He engages the responsibility for the government in front of the National Assembly. In the same way, the Prime Minister has the autonomous lawful capacity (by decrees). This one extends on matters located out of the field of the law determined by article 34 of the constitution. The Prime Minister can change the laws and the decrees voted before 1958, if their field passed in lawful competence. But for that, one needs a decree taken after opinion of the Council of Ministers. The Prime Minister has also the import duty and of word to the Parliament. In that, it is the intermediary between the President and the Parliament. It can ask for to the President the behavior of an extraordinary parliamentary session. It can claim the meeting of a Joint industrial commission in the event of dissension between the two rooms. It has the right to seize the Constitutional council. He is the president of the Council of State.

In practice

The role of the Prime Minister is to direct the action of the Government. The action of the Government is decided by the President of the Republic in his broad outlines. The Prime Minister is theoretically the Head of government, but in the facts, it is the President of the Republic which ensures this role, the Prime Minister doing nothing but apply the policy of the Head of the State. It has even sometimes the role of a " fusible." It has nevertheless clean capacities vis-a-vis the other members of the Government who do not depend on him.

It is usually selected because it is with the head of the political current most powerful of the parliamentary majority of the National Assembly, or among its representatives, if not the personalities close to this majority current. The president of the Republic has however freedom to name a personality which neither is appointed nor senator before his nomination with the head of the government: it was the case of Georges Pompidou or Raymond Barre, or more recently of Dominique de Villepin. If the president of the Republic chooses a Prime Minister who does not reflect the political color of the National Assembly, this one with the possibility of voting a motion of censure.

Consequently, when the Prime Minister is resulting from a political current opposed to that of the President of the Republic, one speaks about Cohabitation because, in this case, the two chiefs of the executive power act in their respective fields of competence. In this case, the Prime Minister, not depending on the President of the Republic, applies his own policy and to the authority to the other ministers. It is then an Head of government, the President of the Republic remaining the Head of the State and chief of the armies and in general occupying more foreign politics (the “reserved domain”).

The President can force the Prime Minister to resign except in period of cohabitation. The Prime Minister has either a minor role, or an important role in the national policy. That depends on the political situation of the country.

Protocol

He is the second character of the State (decrees of the 21/6 and 9/13/1995) after the President of the Republic and before the President of the Senate. Its official name is “Mister the Prime Minister” (name whom preserve the former Prime Ministers even if it is used little).

History of the Prime Ministers/Presidents of the French Council

See also: List of French the Prime Ministers

Current Mandate

See too

external Bond

  • Official site of the Prime Minister of France
  • the role of the Prime Minister

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