Adrien Quatennens, Jean-Luc Melenchon and Clementine Autain at the national assembly on February 21, 2020. - Jacques Witt / SIPA

The mistigri game started on a possible use of 49-3 to have the pension reform adopted. The majority accuse the left of the left of "taking it there" by the obstruction, LFI affirms that the "walkers" "prepare" it by overcoming the "chaos".

Nobody wants to wear the hat of the use of this article of the Constitution which allows to pass a text without vote to the Assembly. But given the deadlock on the project to create a "universal" points system, while the deputies were still in article 1 on the seventh day Sunday, the government could quickly draw this "atomic weapon".

Dinner with the Prime Minister

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe dines Sunday evening with the LREM deputies to question the Assembly, to discuss this difficult parliamentary debate on pensions, said his entourage to AFP, confirming information from the Parisian .

"This majority and this government have never wanted to use 49-3 and even today, we do not wish to use it," Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer said on BFMTV on Sunday. "But we have people who are trying to sabotage a debate and who afterwards will complain about the consequences of the sabotage they have done", he added, accusing La France Insoumise and the Communist Party of being "enemies" of parliamentary democracy ”.

If it were necessary to "defend this option" of 49-3 on the ground, "I would explain the mechanics" of the oppositions, so that "we are not considered as responsible", argues MP Marie Lebec, vice-president of the LREM group. A handful of LREM elected representatives from the left wing have made it known that they do not "want" that the 49-3 be considered as the "only way out", others cringe because it will be necessary to assume before the French not to have voted.

A "ridiculed" Parliament

“I'm not a fan of 49-3 at all. We must do everything to find another solution, "said ex-LREM Cédric Villani on Sunday, denouncing the" sad spectacle "of" systematic obstruction "which" ridiculed Parliament ". The boss of the MoDem group, Patrick Mignola, accused the opposition of wanting to "take" the majority towards a "49-3 upside down", that is to say constrained by obstruction, and not because the majority would be lacking.

According to a tenor, LFI and PCF, with their numerous amendments, have the "strategy" of "pushing the government to 49-3" and then saying "fascistoid government". For his part, the leader of the rebellious Jean-Luc Mélenchon believes that the "rather special atmosphere" which prevails in the Assembly since the start of work on Monday is precisely due to "the threat of 49-3". He demanded that the government undertake not to use it.

"They are trying to stick us on the back 49-3, it is still the height, it is still not us who decide on these things", he launched before the press. Imputing it to the rebels is "the pompom!" "

Passage in force

Marine Le Pen (RN) also criticizes the government for wanting to force through. “It shocks me, this is a reform that touches one of the pillars of our social protection. This reform is a mess and a total opacity, a succession of very heavy lies, “lambasted Sunday the president of the National Rally.

On the LR side, Guillaume Larrivé sees Jean-Luc Mélenchon as “the objective ally” of Emmanuel Macron. According to Aurélien Pradié also, "they are patiently waiting for the machine to be blocked to activate the 49-3, which would be dramatic". "Still, come and blame us for the desire for obstruction, the desire to refuse debates ... I remember an advertisement that said" You push the plug a little far Maurice "and I think we are there "Launched Minister Marc Fesneau on Saturday.

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