This is the 89th time he has served. Eighty-nine times since the beginning of the Fifth Republic that a government uses article 49-3 of the Constitution to have one of its texts adopted. Nuclear deterrence, the Savary law on schools, the CSG, the CPE ... Many symbolic texts have been adopted in this way. Without it always succeeding for them…
● 89 49-3, 51 texts, 52 censure motions
The number of recourse to 49-3 does not however correspond to the number of draft laws concerned, since it can be used on the occasion of several readings of the same text.
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In total, this procedure was used 89 times: 56 times by six left-wing prime ministers, 32 times by eight right-wing prime ministers and 1 time, this Tuesday, March 3, by Édouard Philippe. But it concerned 51 texts, since several of them were the subject of a 49-3 on two occasions. This was the case of the military programming laws of 1960 and 1990 (governments Debré and Rocard), of a law on prices and incomes (Mauroy), on the organization of time
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