On March 16, more than 100,000 people consulted the Wikipedia page dedicated to the page dedicated to “Article 49 of the Constitution of the Fifth French Republic”, according to public statistics from the platform.
For being the most viewed page in the French version of the collaborative online encyclopedia of the day. And for good reason, it is paragraph 3 of this article, more commonly known as 49.3, that was used by the government to push for pension reform, so as not to risk a setback in the event of an unfavorable vote by of the government. National Assembly.
Motion of no confidence and Elisabeth Borne
“Article 49 numeral 3, known as ‘responsibility commitment’, allows the government to approve the text it presents, globalizing and reversing the issue put to a vote. The vote is no longer on the text of the law itself, which the National Assembly would approve by a majority of votes in favour, but on a motion against the Government, which implies its resignation if the majority of votes approves it,” he specifies. the Wikipedia. page.
On the platform, the podium of the most read articles is entirely dedicated to the pension reform. With more than 70,000 visits, the article dedicated to the operation of a vote of no confidence ranks second, followed by the page dedicated to Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne (more than 62,000 visits).
The article dedicated to 49.3 had already experienced a resurgence in popularity on March 1, 2020, with more than 50,000 views, when it had been used by the government of Edouard Philippe in connection with an earlier pension reform, which was later aborted. However, he was overwhelmed by the pages dedicated to the Roman Polanski affair and the coronavirus.
Equivalent statistics had been observed, with 50,000 visits to article 49 of the Constitution when the Labor Law was approved by Prime Minister Manuel Valles on May 10, 2016.
Source: BFM TV
