The boss of the LR senators, Bruno Retailleau, estimated this Friday that Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne was going to have a "
Cornelian choice
" between "
Russian roulette
" of an uncertain vote and the "big Bertha" of 49.3 to pass her reform pensions at the National Assembly.
At the end of the joint joint committee (CMP) scheduled for Wednesday, Elisabeth Borne is counting on a vote of the Republicans in the Assembly to approve the reform without having to use 49.3 (adoption of a text without a vote).
But the evocation of this hypothesis was becoming more and more insistent on Friday.
Cornelian choice
“
There is the problem of the National Assembly.
I am a senator and it is not up to me to do the accounts, it is Madame Borne who will have to do them
”, replied to the microphone of Sud Radio the senator from Vendée who wishes the adoption of the reform, for “
the good of the French
" and to "
save this pay-as-you-go pension scheme
".
"
She's going to have a difficult choice: it's Russian roulette or it's big Bertha
," he added.
"
Russian roulette is trying to rely on a little more than chance to have a majority, there is a part of the bet that is not Pascalian because when you lose, you really lose and if not, big Bertha , it's 49.3
,” he explained.
Before this stage, there will be the CMP "
where we can end up on the condition that the presidential majority is open in particular to our proposals
", warned Bruno Retailleau.
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Sick parliamentarism
And even before that, the debate in the Senate continues and must end Sunday at midnight.
"
I want us to go to the end (of the examination of the text) and I think it's perfectly possible
," he said, deploring the "
undemocratic behavior
" of the left-wing minority in the Senate which wants to "
block the majority
".
According to him, "
obstruction is the disease of parliamentarianism
" and he criticized the senatorial left for having "
industrialized obstruction
", while acknowledging that it is "
civilized obstruction
" in contrast to that of the Nupes in the Assembly.
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The Senate progressed laboriously Thursday in the examination of the text, after the adoption the day before of the postponement to 64 years of the age of departure, against the backdrop of persistent strikes and scattered blockages.
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