A Coronavirus Defense Council can hide a Council of Ministers on 49-3. Saturday, February 29, at the very end of the afternoon, it was to everyone's surprise that Edouard Philippe came to the National Assembly to announce in the gallery that he was triggering article 49-3 on pension reform . The decision was taken on Saturday morning at the Coronavirus Council. With article 49-3, the pension reform will be adopted without a vote unless the majority of MPs vote a censure motion. Hypothesis highly improbable in spite of the bad mood displayed by certain LREM deputies who had not been previously informed of the decision of the executive.
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As of Tuesday, Edouard Philippe had warned in the hemicycle that he reserved the possibility of brandishing this criticized article. " We wanted to give ourselves a few more days to stop the blockage, but obviously it was no longer useful, " observes a relative of Edouard Philippe. It was then a bet
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