It’s a great subtlety. As we move towards the impossibility for the deputies to examine all the modifications to the pension reform project before the deadline established by article 47.1 of the Constitution expires, our colleagues from the Public Senate point out a detail that will be important: whatever they may be the debates in the National Assembly, the government will be able to transmit the version it wants of the pension reform to the Senate.
The fault, once again, of this famous article 47.1 of the Constitution. This means used by the government to have the pension reform studied allows the executive to choose the version of the text to present.
“If the National Assembly has not voted on the entire social security financing bill at first reading within the period provided for in article 47.1 of the Constitution, the Government sends the text that it initially presented to the Senate, modified where appropriate. by the reforms voted by the National Assembly and accepted by it, and the Senate must then pronounce itself within a period of fifteen days from its seizure”, reads article LO111-7 of the Social Security Code.
Obviously, the deputies will not be able to vote on the entire text this Friday due to the importance of the number of amendments proposed by the opposition. As of this afternoon, midnight, the Government could thus seize the Senate on the text “that it initially presented”, with the amendments “voted by the National Assembly and accepted by it”.
Therefore, article 2 on the senior index could return to the agenda of the debates of the senators. Although he was widely rejected by the deputies, it appeared “in the text originally filed”.
“The government wants the senior index to be reset during the Senate exam,” Olivier Véran explained at a press conference on Wednesday.
But I am not sure that the senators agree with the executive, since many elected officials in the Luxembourg Palace consider the measure insufficient or unconstitutional, he explains. Public Senate.
Source: BFM TV
