“It's the perfect example of a practical case that I could have asked one of my students
,” jokes Benjamin Morel, lecturer in public law at the University of Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas.
"It's simply unprecedented"
, abounds the constitutionalist Anne-Charlène Bezzina.
"Never under the Fifth Republic has a government had recourse to so many tools of rationalized parliamentarism."
Let's resume.
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First, to carry out its pension reform, the executive chose to go through a budget text (an amending social security financing bill), thus allowing it to have recourse to article 47-1 of the Constitution, the main effect of which is to limit the length of debates.
Then, Olivier Dussopt triggered article 44-3, allowing the Senate to decide by a single vote on the entire reform, retaining only the amendments proposed or accepted by the government.
A way to put an end to
“a methodical obstruction and a will…
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