A symbolic threshold. On the twelfth day of discussions, the threshold of 100 hours of debate was crossed, this Friday, at the National Assembly on the pension reform. But the bill is still far from the two texts which have exceeded 150 hours since 1981, including ... the 2003 pension reform.
MEPs debated over 100 hours on the pension reform project to create a "universal" point system. But the deputies are far from finished and still have to sit again over the weekend on this text which has been subject to 41,000 amendments. At the current rate of 50 amendments per hour, it would still take some 600 hours.
More than 166 hours on the press bill
Since 1981, twelve texts have exceeded 100 hours of debate, according to data transmitted from parliamentary sources. The record goes to the press bill, which required 166 hours and 50 minutes of discussion at first reading for 20 days between December 1983 and February 1984. The 2003 Fillon pension reform required 157 hours of debate for 19 days.
Among the other texts that have been debated at length are also a 2004 bill on health insurance (142h31), a text on higher education (133h15 in 1983), as well as in 2006 the bill relating to the health sector. 'energy, which required 121h46 with more than 137,000 amendments, an absolute record under the Fifth Republic. The shadow of the 49-3 (adoption without vote) had hovered over the debates like today, but the deputies had finally reached the end of the text without resorting to it.
"What" 84 hours for the bioethics bill
The law “for growth and activity”, known as “Macron law” is also at the top of the basket, with 111h16 of debate in 2015, just before the law opening marriage to gay couples under the Holland five-year term (111h03 in 2013 ).
Under this legislature, the “Elan” law on housing required 92 hours of discussion, while the bioethics bill only required “first” 84 hours at first reading, before the “LOM” orientation law. mobility (81h). The pension reform project breaks the record on Friday, even going beyond the long budget texts.
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