Abstract
The defender of land and tradition labels a profile of MPs criticizing EU norms to protect the specificities of their constituency. The feeling that the traditional way of life is under threat given European remote policies is indeed a source of mobilization for those parliamentarians. The example of several bills related to wild bird hunting is investigated in order to relativize the electoral aims of MPs activities. By refusing a 1979 EU directive, French senators and députés seek to protect their local people and, inseparably, their own role as representatives. The unanimous call for more subsidiarity is therefore understood a kind of self-promotion in a system made of blurred policy competencies.
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The voting system for European elections was modified in 2004. France was divided into eight large regions, and the CPNT only ran candidates in five of them.
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According to the report in Libération, 17 June 1998.
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Senate Report no. 335, for the Committee of Economic Affairs and Planning on the bill pertaining to hunting, by Anne Heinis, 11 May 2000, pp. 11–12.
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Le Monde, 28 June 2000.
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Libération, 16 June 1998.
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A temporary mission is accorded by a government member to an MP in order to investigate a given issue. It consists of hearing interested parties and drafting a public report. An MP cannot fill this role for more than six months.
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They voluntarily abstained or voted differently from the group during at least some of the 16 registered votes organised through the examination of the law of 26 July 2000.
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JORF, AN, CR, session of 25 January 2017, p. 457.
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This is related to the ‘partial independence of representatives’ identified as one of the four principles of representative government by Bernard Manin (1997).
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Rozenberg, O. (2020). The Defender of Land and Tradition: The Activism of the Righter of Wrongs. In: The French Parliament and the European Union. French Politics, Society and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19791-9_5
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