another constitutional crisis that would undoubtedly require the Constitutional Council, one of France’s supreme courts, to weigh in.
The Constitutional Council will just rubber stamp whatever Macron decides to do, there's no way they'd decide to not be useless for once and go against Macron.
As a reminder, the Constitutional Council is comprised of nine temporary members chosen for nine years each, three of which are chosen by the President of the Republic, three more are chosen by the President of the Senate and three more are chosen by the President of the National Assembly (who has been a "Macronist" since 2017, and all three of the members of the Constitutional Council that depend on them have been renewed since 2017). Thus, there are six "Macronist" members of the Constitutional Council and three conservatives.
Technically, all living former Presidents are also members of the Constitutional Council (separation of powers for thee, not for me), but Sarkozy will be in prison very soon and Hollande has decided not to take up this role so you can ignore both of them (unless Sarkozy can sit at the Council from his prison cell for some reason); and regardless of whether or not you count them, "Macronists" still hold a majority.
Another thing to mention: while Lecornu has said he'll not use Article 49-3 to bypass Parliament, there still are many other tools in the Constitution that allow the executive to "rationalise" parliamentary debate, such as Article 40 (which blocks parliamentary proposals that have a negative impact on the country's finances, even if compensated by other measures), Article 44-3 (which lets the government basically decides which amendments it wishes to keep and which ones it wants to add to then submit this version of the text to a vote; the government used this in the Senate for the pensions reform back in 2023).
To see someone harming the interests of the masses and yet not feel indignant, or dissuade or stop him or reason with him, but to allow him to continue. This is an eighth type.
