His pension reform is about to be approved… but with a taste of bitterness.
Ten months to the day after her appointment to Matignon, Elisabeth Borne was forced on Thursday to put down the 49.3 card to get out of the trap at the Palais Bourbon.
Unwillingly.
Since the presentation of her text on January 15, the Prime Minister has repeated her hope of finding a majority to vote for it.
Damaged politically by the ten successive appeals to 49.3 during the examination of the 2023 budget this fall, the head of government hoped to finally leave its mark, that of dialogue and compromise.
Moreover, around a major text, the most irritating of the program defined by Emmanuel Macron for his second five-year term.
And this despite a relative majority which handicaps its action.
Bet failed.
The procrastination of the right convinced her to protect her back by taking refuge behind this constitutional article which allows her to step over the stage of the vote of Parliament.
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