The 100th time.

Yesterday marked the 100th use of Article 49-3 under the Fifth French Republic. 100 times since 1958. Yesterday was the 10th time it was used by Emmanuel Macron's government—a tenth of all uses—in only six years of reign.

Article 49-3 allows the government to bypass Parliament entirely, preventing any vote from taking place in the National Assembly, considering a law to be adopted unless the government can be impeached through a motion of censorship gathering more than half of the chamber.

Photo credit.

[Image description and translation :

A screenshot of French Tweeter, containing two tweets. First tweet is a news headshot from the RTL account, which is a French radio. On it is a picture of a white man speaking while holding a feather (not sure exactly what it is) in his hand, with a blue-purple background. Above the picture is written :

“François Asselineau en garde à vue pour harcèlement et “agression sexuelles””, which means “François Asselineau in custody for harassment and “sexual assaults”.

The text under the picture is a repeat of the first one, with a link to the RTL website to read the article.

The second tweet is a comment by user Dr Evil (@DrEvilOff), whose profile picture is Dr Evil from the Austin Powers movies, who wrote :

“François Asselineau désormais ministrable”, which means “François Asselineau now a potential minister”.

End image description]

(EDIT : changed “agression” to “assault” because I couldn’t remember the right word in English before lol)

(for context, our minister of internal affairs is an alleged rapist)

Les instructions ne sont pas très claires, donc je ne suis pas sûr des mots qui sont interdits… On peut parler de “supposé” ? Ou de “prétendument” ? Ou de “selon certaines sources” ?

(les tags d'origine)

on peut pas dire “darmanin sale violeur”. après, ça se suppose. par exemple on peut théoriser que l'abjecte darmanin est un sale violeur. on peut imaginer que darmanin, c'est un sale violeur. on peut chanter sous la douche et fredonner “quel sale violeur, cet abjecte darmanin!”.

par contre c'est interdit de dire “darmanin, sale violeur”, on le rappelle à tout le monde, soyons clairs et honnêtes.

#darmaninsalevioleur