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How nocturnal debates in the Assembly exhaust the deputies

2022-10-23T18:49:57.700Z


TESTIMONIALS - Since the beginning of October, the deputies have often sat every day of the week, from morning to evening.


When

I think that some say that we are paid for doing nothing …”

At the end of a week of nocturnal debates on the 2023 finance bill, Alexandra Masson is like all the other parliamentarians:

“Shriveled with fatigue .”

"It's exhausting, we cut down a crazy volume of working hours

," she says.

If she does not complain about it -

"I wanted it"

, she smiles -, she regrets that all this work is almost in vain, the government having already taken the decision twice to draw article 49-3 of the Constitution and having retained

"only a few amendments"

resulting from parliamentary work.

“I'm washed out… If someone tells you that he's in great shape, it's because he doesn't have to work a lot”

, agrees the ecologist Sandra Regol.

7 days on 7

Since the beginning of October and the opening of the ordinary session in the National Assembly, the deputies have often sat every day of the week, from morning to evening, juggling between their committee and the Chamber.

With a very significant presenteeism...

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Source: lefigaro

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