The government of French President Emmanuel Macron has banned 32 civic groups in six years. Some ask whether his office’s authority needs to be reined in
—which allows the executive to bypass Parliament—since his party and its allies lost their parliamentary majority in last year’s elections. The only prime minister to use it more, 28 times, served under socialist President François Mitterrand.
Any attempt to rein in presidential power would require the cooperation of the president or his successors. Far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon proposed weakening the presidency while campaigning in last year’s presidential election.Catch up on the headlines, understand the news and make better decisions, free in your inbox every day.The Macron government says it is operating in unusually tumultuous times.
This month, Mr. Macron’s government moved to ban Les Soulèvements de la Terre, or Earth Uprising, a coalition of environmental groups, unions and others that oppose infrastructure projects that eat up the French countryside. The group has high-profile support among politicians and intellectuals, including Mr. Mélenchon and Green Party lawmaker Yannick Jadot, both of whom were candidates in last year’s presidential election.Mr.
Such bans wouldn’t be possible in the U.S., where courts have interpreted the First Amendment to provide near-absolute guarantees to freedom of expression and assembly, legal scholars say. France’s Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, drafted in 1789 during the French Revolution and included in the preamble of the current constitution, protects freedom of opinion “as long as the manifestation of such opinions does not interfere with the established Law and Order.
Mr. Dutertre blames the clashes last month on the tactics employed by French police, including firing stun grenades into crowds of protesters. Mr. Macron stood by the police actions.Aurelien Morissard/Associated Press
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