French centrist Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and his government tendered their resignations on Tuesday but agreed to be a caretaker government until a new cabinet is sworn in after a recent unscheduled poll.
Currently, the caretaker government will be able to deal with ongoing matters and provide leadership to the euro zone’s second-largest economy; however, this government will not be able to formulate new laws or bring alterations of any great degree or proportion.
These will entail the discharge of key duties such as the coordination of the Olympics effective from July 26.
“Managing current affairs is about applying measures which have already been taken and facing incidents that occur,” Professor Mathieu Disant of Paris’ Panthéon-Sorbonne University.
“An outgoing government is deprived of its full powers, logically limiting any political action. ” France does have precedent of caretaker government but none was in existence for more than few days. As for the acting government duration, there is no time frame spelled out, and neither can parliament commit the acting government to resign.
French constitution normally does not allow ministers to also be members of the parliament, these restraints are normally accurate in defining the separation of powers.
Still, the resignations, even as caretakers, will enable Attal and other government members to occupy parliamentary seats and take part in the election of the assembly’s chairman upon its session on Thursday according to analysts.