National Assembly: One year after dissolution, the Palais-Bourbon is in a state of dismay

While the centre of power was supposed to return to the National Assembly, the institution seems to have lost all its balance, flirting with immobility and impotence.

Here we are back in the 19th century, when the presiding judge, André Dupin, could only observe that in the National Assembly, "the platform is like a well: when one bucket goes down, the other goes up." (Denis Allard/Libération)

To write history rather than undergo it, such was the stated motivation of Emmanuel Macron when he announced to the astonished French the dissolution of the National Assembly . A year later, having regained this week the right to redissolve Parliament if he so wished, the President can only note the political damage caused by this childish act. What was supposed to be "a time of essential clarification" leading to a rebirth of parliamentary power - with its effective coalitions, its successful bills and its responsible compromises - has only produced the worrying immobility of our parliamentary democracy .

A deserted hemicycle, a missing government, votes against its own side, a lamentable level of debate... On the contrary, we are back in the 19th century, when the president of the session André Dupin could only observe that in the National Assembly, "the platform is like a well: when one bucket goes down, the other goes up."

Many MPs are concerned about this disordered Parliament, whose disorder can only benefit the National Rally. After the fall of Michel Barnier's government, the President admitted that "lucidity and humility demand that we recognize that, at this time, this decision has produced more instability than serenity."

The MPs who confided their feelings and painful sense of powerlessness to Libération understand this only too well. "Relinquishing one's own power to legislate is collective irresponsibility, we are completely distorting our procedures," admits MP (Liot) Constance de Pélichy. However, should Emmanuel Macron once again use the ultimate weapon , as if a twist of the kaleidoscope could reveal a political landscape different from this feudal regime of petty barons? We must not submit to history, but we must not dream it either.