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Originally Posted by LazyScot
I remember a (French) friend explaining to me that French politicians had a habit of passing laws that didn't (completely) exist. At some point in the future they would be finished, and only then they became law.
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This is technically true : for a law to be applied the constitution requires that it be published with the "décrets d'application" (public order for implementation?), the administrative translation of the law that will specify the day to day appication of the law through regulations; so: you have a law voted "see? we did a law!" and then you postpone (indefinitely) the publication of the orders... and the law --though technically in force-- isn't enforceable...
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According to the friend this had the benefit that the politicians could jump up and down saying how brilliant they were in responding to public opinion and addressing issues of great import (!), but without necessarily really having a law in the long term.[...].
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Your friend is/was apparently knowledgeable in French public law...