“It’s not a failure.” A guest of BFMTV-RMC, Olivier Dussopt defends the executive’s position, after Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne shot article 49.3 on the pension reform on Thursday, failing to unite an absolute majority in its text.
This provision of the Constitution leads to the immediate interruption of the debates and the approval of the text, unless motions of censure are presented.
Although the deputies could not vote, “there is a text that has been ‘examined and approved by the Senate and the joint commission’, stressed the Minister of Labor. For him, the responsibility lies with the oppositions.
“Who tabled 20,000 amendments?”
Olivier Dussopt points the finger at “a certain number of deputies from Les Républicains (LR)”, who “did not follow the position taken by their party”, whose main officials were in favor of the bill.
The former socialist also reserves some cartridges for the left, denouncing his strategy during the first reading of the text.
“Why couldn’t the National Assembly vote? Who presented 20,000 amendments, who organized the obstruction, who did everything to prevent the Assembly from voting? It’s the reaper opposition,” he declares.
“Violence”
The minister, like the government, prefers to stop at the Marseillaise sung by the Insoumis while Élisabeth Borne was announcing 49.3, rather than about the use of this cleaver item. She expresses “her sadness of her” of her, believing that “the violence of words, of conduct” is “in the image” of everything she “saw during the debates on pension reform.”
“For weeks, months, we have had opposition, in particular La France insoumise, which only seeks one thing: to block, to damage,” he declared.
Despite the use of 49.3, the pension reform has not yet been adopted. The RN intends to file a motion of censure, which must be followed by another, desired transversally. In case of adoption, this provision allows to overthrow the government and reject a bill, if it has been submitted to 49.3.
Source: BFM TV
