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The government has an extensive set of powers over the legislature. It may call upon these powers so as to ensure the passage of its own legislation. The Prime Minister would seem to be the main beneficiary of the government's powers. In certain areas, he is personally given the right to intervene in the parliamentary stage of the policy-making process. For example, he has the power to call an extraordinary session of Parliament (Article 29); he has the right to initiate laws (Article 39); and he may engage the government's responsibility on a particular piece of legislation The French Prime Minister 19 (Article 49).
For example, Presidents have placed loyal advisers at the head of certain interministerial co-ordinating structures. These structures include both defence and military institutions as well as the committee which co-ordinates EC policy, the SGCI. So great has been the perceived extent of presidential government that a whole range of convenient epithets have been conjured up to characterise his position in the system. For some, the President resembles a monarch. 7 For others, he is not so much a king as an emperor.
In the next chapter, the different classifications of core executive operations in the French political system will be identified. It will be seen that the role of the Prime Minister in the system and the extent of his influence in the policy process differs from one model of core executive operations to the next. 2 Models of Core Executive Operations The aim of the last chapter was to outline the general constitutional, administrative and political position of the French Prime Minister in the Fifth Republic.