This is a false suspense: the government, as we know, will have to resort to article 49-3 of the Constitution to have its bill on pensions passed. The only question is who, the executive or the rebels, will bring before the public responsibility for the use of this institutional weapon of last resort.
The President of the National Assembly, Richard Ferrand, warned: even by sitting non-stop seven days a week, it would take 150 days - five months! - to examine the approximately 42,000 amendments tabled by the majority of the seventeen deputies of La France insoumise and the eleven Communist elected representatives. This simple clarification is already a way of announcing what is going to happen. Jean-Luc Mélenchon understood this well: " They want to prepare public opinion for the idea of taking out 49-3 ", he was indignant.
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His indignation is obviously feigned: the deputy from Marseille does not fear this procedure; he hopes and provokes it. In order to be able to storm harder against " the methods of authoritarianism
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