The Minister of Labor announced, in an interview with the daily Stubborn this Friday, that the Government could again resort to 49.3 to approve laws other than the pension reform without a vote in Parliament.
According to him, the government “may have to go back to using 49.3, I hope as little as possible.”
“There is no possible alternative”
“We use this article not because the majority is broken, but to show that there is no possible alternative,” said Olivier Dussopt.
The minister recalled that the Government “has approved several texts without using it, thanks to compromise majorities” and that “the texts relating to the pension reform, in 2003, 2010 and 2013, have all been the subject of deliberation due to blocked voting” .
According to him, “it is the demonstration that constitutional procedures are used almost systematically, the debate in France is so passionate. In total, Parliament debated 175 hours, that is as much as the last two reforms added.”
The tension has risen a notch in recent days in France, since the use of 49.3 by the government. The day after a 9th day of demonstrations against the pension reform marked by a renewed mobilization and images of unprecedented violence, the Elysee had to announce the postponement of the state visit of Carlos III.
Source: BFM TV
