Paris (AFP)

The game of mistigri began on a possible use of 49-3 to pass the pension reform: the majority accuses the left of the left of "taking him there" by obstruction, LFI says that the "walkers" "prepare" by overplaying "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 at the beginning of the seventh day Sunday, the government could quickly draw this "atomic weapon".

In the majority and in government, we continue to dismiss it for the time being. The Minister in charge of Relations with Parliament, Marc Fesneau, reiterated on Saturday his desire to "go to the end of the debate". "We are at the beginning (...) We are not going to record failure!", The general rapporteur Guillaume Gouffier-Cha (LREM) also launched on Friday.

But Rémi Rebeyrotte (LREM) warned: "The surest way to go towards 49-3 (...), which nobody wants on these benches, is obstruction."

And if we had to "defend this option" on the ground, "I would explain the mechanics" of oppositions, so that "we are not considered responsible," argues his colleague Marie Lebec.

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.

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. "We don't want them to inflict this brutality on us."

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 +".

- "You push the plug, Maurice" -

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.

And accuses the executive and the majority of wanting to "interrupt the debate because this debate overwhelms them", and "to warm opinion by giving the impression of chaos in the hemicycle" to prepare it for the use of this tool.

"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 said to the press. Imputing it to the rebels is "the pompom!"

According to his colleague Adrien Quatennens, the majority is trying "to create, by means of indignant interruptions repeatedly, a climate favorable to the use of this parliamentary LBD".

As for the communist Sébastien Jumel, he is convinced that the government "has decided to go to the forceps", an elected PS also believing that the government and the majority "are looking for pretexts for 49-3".

Marine Le Pen (RN) also criticized the government for wanting to "go ahead", without "debate", on Saturday on BFMTV.

On the LR side, Guillaume Larrivé sees in Jean-Luc Mélenchon "Emmanuel Macron's objective ally". "He offers him the alibi that will allow" the text to come out of the Assembly "exactly as it entered it," said the MP on Twitter.

According to Aurélien Pradié also, "they are patiently waiting for the machine to be blocked to activate 49-3, which would be dramatic," he told Public Sénat.

"All the same, come and reproach us for the desire for obstruction, the desire to refuse debates ... I remember an advertisement that said + You push the plug a bit far Maurice + and I think we are there, "launched Minister Marc Fesneau on Saturday.

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