Overview

• Yaël Braun-Pivet, President of the National Assembly, expressed concerns about the growing number of parliamentary inquiry commissions, describing the current volume as excessive.
• She highlighted that some commissions are being used as partisan platforms rather than for impartial fact-finding, undermining their intended purpose.
• Braun-Pivet reiterated the assembly’s rules, which allow each political group one inquiry annually, with additional inquiries requiring hemicycle votes or committee conversions.
• The recent commission on school violence, which involved Prime Minister François Bayrou’s testimony, was noted for its broad scope, covering Catholic educational institutions with past allegations of serious misconduct.
• Braun-Pivet defended Bayrou, stating that his testimony demonstrated he had no personal involvement in the issues under investigation.