CARCASSONNE, Guy <br/><br/>
Les rapports du Président français et du Premier ministre 

 - Paris :  IIAP,  juil./sept. 1997 
<br/><br/> Relations between the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister are inscribed within an unvarying institutional framework. Admittedly the respective weight of the two actors varies depending upon whether or not the presidential and parliamentary majorities are in harmony or, on the contrary, in opposition. But the passage from one situation to the other changes neither the principles governing their institutional relations nor their methods of collaboration. Nevertheless, political relations between those fulfilling these two functions can vary and, while the President of the Republic may have a certain formal advantage, it is none the less equally true to say that technically it is the Prime Minister who is the main player because, whatever the political context, it is Matignon which lies at the heart of the system