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"We have looked for ways (...) to avoid the irremediable," said spokesman PS Boris Vallaud (here December 12, 2018). Bertrand GUAY / AFP

Parliamentarians announced Tuesday, April 9 to have gathered the necessary number of votes to trigger a referendum of shared initiative (RIP) unpublished against the privatization of Aéroports de Paris (ADP).

" We have been looking for ways (...) to avoid the irremediable, " PS spokesman Boris Vallaud told a press conference. While 185 signatures of parliamentarians are necessary to trigger a referendum of shared initiative, 197 deputies and senators of opposition have expressed themselves against the privatization of Aéroports de Paris (ADP).

In addition to the hundred or so Socialist deputies and senators and the thirty or so Communist elected representatives of both Houses, the text has received the support of some fifty Republican MPs, as well as 12 deputies from the Libertés and Territories and Senators RDSE and Centrist Union. .

4.5 million votes needed

" We did not want to be committed again the error that turned into a scandal, the privatization of highways, with the privatization of Paris airports ," justified Boris Vallaud. " It is a question of asking the French and the French if they agree that the exploitation, the development and the development of the airfields of Paris Charles-de-Gaulle, Paris Orly and Paris Le Bourget, take the national public service character. "

This is the first time the shared initiative referendum (RIP), created by the constitutional revision of 2008 and entered into force in 2015, is triggered. But the collection of signatures of parliamentarians is only a first step. For such a referendum to be organized, the text must now be approved within a period of nine months by 10% of the electorate (4.5 million French) after the green light of the Constitutional Council, which must ensure that the procedure fits well within the framework of Article 11 of the Constitution.

"Hen with golden eggs"

The privatization of Aéroports de Paris, a 50.6% state-owned company, is among the public asset disposals provided for by the draft Pact for Business Growth (Pact). It provoked an outcry in the ranks of the opposition, several members of which denounced a " sell-off " of the " family jewels " of the state, or the government's desire to kill " the hen with eggs". gold ".

The bill was to be considered on Tuesday afternoon in the Senate in new reading, and must be adopted definitively Thursday in the Assembly. According to a parliamentary source quoted by Agence France-Presse, this calendar should not be called into question by the triggering of the referendum of shared initiative.

(With agencies)