The head of the LR senators, Bruno Retailleau, estimated this Friday that Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne was going to have a “carnelian choice” between the “Russian roulette” of an uncertain vote and the “Big Bertha” of 49.3 to approve his pension reform in the National Assembly.
At the end of the joint joint commission (CMP) scheduled for Wednesday, Elisabeth Borne has the vote of the Republicans in the Assembly to approve the reform without having to use 49.3 (approval of a text without a vote). But the evocation of this hypothesis becomes more and more insistent.
“Big Bertha”
“There is the problem of the National Assembly. I am a senator and it is not up to me to do the accounts, it is Mrs. Borne who will have to do them,” the Vendée senator who wants the approval of the reform responded to the microphone of Sud Radio. “the good of the French” and to “save this pay-as-you-go pension scheme”.
“She’s going to have a tough choice: is it Russian roulette or is it Big Bertha?”
“Russian roulette is trying to rely on a little more than the probability of having a majority. There is a part of betting that is not Pascalian because when you lose, you really lose and if you don’t, big Bertha, it’s 49.3,” he explained.
“Obstruction is the disease of parliamentarism”
Before this stage, there will be the CMP “where we can finish provided that the presidential majority is open in particular to our proposals”, warned the senator from Vendée.
And even before that, the debate in the Senate continues and must end on Sunday at midnight. “I want us to reach the end (of the examination of the text) and I think it is perfectly possible,” he said, deploring the “anti-democratic behavior” of the minority of the left in the Senate that wants to “block the majority.”
According to him, “obstruction is the disease of parliamentarism” and criticized the senatorial left for having “industrialized obstruction”, while acknowledging that it is a “civilized obstruction” in contrast to that of the Nupes in the Assembly.
Source: BFM TV
