This assessment appears in an op-ed published in Le Monde on Wednesday, November 11. It concerns the plan to apply the National Rally's migration policy in this way.
For them, a head of state could not consult the French people directly in order to amend the Constitution without first obtaining the agreement of both assemblies.
The stakes therefore go beyond the electoral calendar alone: the path chosen to revise the fundamental text is, according to these legal scholars, constrained and cannot be circumvented.
The Senate, by contrast, would remain dominated by a right-wing and centrist majority that could oppose such a revision.
At the heart of the argument is the distinction between Articles 11 and 89 of the Constitution.
The first allows the President of the Republic to submit certain bills to a referendum. According to the signatories, it does not exempt him from the prior agreement of both chambers when it comes to amending the Constitution.