High-risk vote on the Ceta free trade treaty in the Senate, in the midst of an agricultural crisis. “The communists and the Republicans are going to vote with the ecologists...
It’s a shame,” says one senator. A rejection by the Senate would be far from trivial: in fact, the fate of the text could be identical on second reading in the National Assembly where the presidential camp does not have an absolute majority. If a national Parliament rejects the treaty, this calls into question its provisional application.