The members of the national representation are preparing for very bitter debates. After months of mobilization on the street against pension reform, the institution of a universal pension system is about to give rise to a completely different form of fencing: parliamentary obstruction. This ancestral practice of opposition, of which we find sketches as early as ancient Rome, consists in submitting a maximum of corrections to a text under discussion, even if they are repetitive as fanciful, to considerably delay their adoption. A parliamentary roadblock which has tended to become rare in recent years.
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By tackling, on February 17, the first discussions in plenary session of the sixty-five articles contained in the bill, the deputies were able to discover the promises of insomnia reserved for them by the some 40,290 amendments tabled, including 37,000 attributable to the only left. A record for this legislature. Which goes without recalling another:
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