When Élisabeth Borne took the floor from the rostrum of the National Assembly to announce the use of 49-3 and thus have the finance bill (PLF) adopted, all the press would echo it.
The oppositions will be indignant at this unjustified passage in force and the presidential camp will explain that it had no choice in the face of the institutional blockage that a vote against would have generated.
This will end - for a time - the fool's game in which these different actors have been engaged for several weeks.
However, the parliamentary process allowing the adoption of the budget as well as the social security financing bill (PLFSS) will be far from over.
And the executive has already warned: article 49-3 of the Constitution, which allows it to have its text adopted without having the parliamentarians vote, could well be used several times in the coming weeks on these two texts.
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