The Senate voted this Saturday night, by 195 votes against 112, in favor of the bill that leads to the pension reform, which extends the legal exit age from 62 to 64 years.
A group of senators and deputies must now meet on Wednesday in a mixed mixed commission (CMP) to build a compromise project between the two chambers that will then have to vote separately the following day on this text.
The approval of the Assembly, where the government only has a relative majority and where the right is divided, is more uncertain.
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne “will have a difficult choice: it is the Russian roulette” of a vote in the Assembly or “big Bertha” with article 49.3 of the Constitution that allows the adoption of a text without a vote but carries the risk of government censorship warned Bruno Retailleau, the leader of the Senators Les Républicains.
Accelerated debates in the Senate
To speed up the debates that were dragging on, the Minister of Labor, anxious to obtain the democratic legitimacy of the reform, had drawn the weapon of article 44.3 of the Constitution on Friday. Procedure that allows a single vote on the entire text without submitting to a vote the amendments to which the government is unfavorable.
Shouting “coup d’état” and “collapse of the Senate”, the elected leftists began each of their interventions on Saturday with the reading of the same text addressed to the “allied right”.
“You have decided to devitalize the parliamentary function by adding all the procedures that the procedure and the Constitution offer you (…) but let us not be fooled and neither will the French, we will not give up, we will not win, do not let go”.
But not enough to prevent the review from advancing at a dizzying pace, especially after the push launched by the head of the senators LR Bruno Retailleau when he resigned on Saturday afternoon to present his emblematic amendment, which called for abolishing the special regimes. , even for active employees. .
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Source: BFM TV
